Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...setting is back-lot Moscow. The plot, based on a novel by George Feifer, employs the sort of people who trade in hard currencies and Western jazz records on the famous black market there in a vain effort to relieve the pervading drabness. The thought that the secret police may be crashing round the edges of an East-meets-West romance adds the faintest imaginable flavor of suspense to this bowl of borsch. Actually, the only thing to be said for the locale is that when the Russians find people behaving as tiresomely as Miss Hawn, they haul them into...
...understand now, when celebrities are made daily on TV. If he sent shirts to the laundry, they were not sent back. If he wrote a check, it was never cashed. If he checked a hat, it was somehow lost. All became souvenirs, precious talismans of the other wise cynical Jazz...
...some instrument with the most popular form of expression (not surprisingly) being guitar, piano and of course, listening to stereo. Stereo fanatics run rampant here. Cambridge is an audiophile's paradise. About a dozen stores around the square deal stereo components. The Coop has one of the largest rock, jazz, folk and classical record stocks in Boston. If you're not tuned in before you get here, you probably will be in a short time...
...urban American primitive, a Jewish Leadbelly. And besides Goldman such folk art hasn't yet enlisted too many serious students. Goldman has staked out a new region that promises to be a "field of the future" among scholars and critics. Through his magazine articles and essays on jazz, rock and sick, black and Jewish comics, he has established himself as its intellectual squatter-in-residence. Goldman could have made Ladies and Gentlemen--LENNY BRUCE!! an occasion for laying down the definitive doctrines and canons not only on Bruce's art but on the whole cultural milieu in which it flourished...
Bruce's routines tapped the ghetto idiom and jazz slang of the fifties black jazz musicians with whom he gigged, scored junk and shot up. He mined the radio shows and grade B movies of the thirties and forties to forge his early mordant satires. Finally, Bruce found his most comprehensive metaphor for human experience in the hustling world of show business itself. As Goldman reconstructs and distills the creative process, Bruce's greatest work would invariably pose the question...