Word: hortons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rogers, Texas (pop. 1,030), to a laborer and his wife, who soon separated, Ailey remained with his mother and moved with her to Los Angeles when he was eleven. After a brief flirtation with romance languages at San Francisco State College, he began studying with Lester Horton, a pioneering white choreographer whose West Coast school was devoted to the development of black dancers. By 1953 Ailey was dancing in Horton's Bal Caribe revue at Ciro's nightclub...
Something small and serious was the aim here. Size is no measure of quality, though, and glumness no substitute for depth. Tomorrow is an antique-a remnant, like last year's Going Home, of television's "golden years," a time that memory has much improved. Horton Foote's screenplay is based not only on a William Faulkner short story called Tomorrow, but also on Foote's 1960 Playhouse 90 adaptation of it. This may explain why the film looks a little like a kinescope...
...This first song was done by Johnny Horton; after that we got a Bo Diddley number. We're going to do the Johnny Horton song like Bo Diddley and the Bo Diddley song like Don Covay...Actually, this is just another ballad...
...circles in which bluesmen travel: young Johnny Shines journeying off with Robert Johnson: Howling Wolf learning to play harp from his brother-in-law Sonny Boy Williamson and later being discovered by Ike Turner; or the list of musicians who've passed through Muddy Waters' band, which includes Walter Horton, Junior Wells, Willie Dixon, James Cotton, Jimmy Rogers, Earl Hooker, Otis Spann and Buddy Guy. The names and anecdotes go on and on. For example, Chess Records was offered the rights to Elvis Presley, but refused it because "we didn't think of ourselves as a hillbilly label at that...
Crimson midfield play yesterday was excellent, and Harvard won almost every face off. Many of the Engineers' clearing passes were intercepted and promptly rammed past Horton...