Word: jes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were certainly no chickens in the ring. Napoles, who is called "Man-tequilla" because his style is "smooth as butter," owns the best knockout record (47 in 69 bouts) in welterweight history. He and Lewis shared the bill with World Bantamweight Champion Rubén ("Mister K.O.") Olivares and Jesús ("Little Poison") Pimentel, who staged a fast and furious slugfest before Olivares beat Pimentel into submission in the tenth round, scoring his 63rd knockout in 69 fights. Both men are typical of the host of hungry little fighters, most of them from Latin America and Asia...
...Great, grotesque hunks of institutional meat. Barrels of dough. Bread for the circus. And, over on Elvis' right, Brobdingnagian close-ups of the office staff, the maids, bellboys, waitresses, showgirls and hawkers, pr men. Tourists. But no, not tourists. Not in Vegas. And, the center of it all, Elvis, jes keeps on singin'. Surround him, cameras roll up and down through the labyrinthic entrails of the International. Elvis, dwarfed by eight foot high shanks of beef, by linen and glassware and advertising. By MGM celluloid. Elvis. That...
...event, Miss Baez sang with the casual magnificence that is well known to Cambridge audiences. She sings without ever forcing a note, jes' letting that cool voice float out of her slightly open mouth. Although the humorous songs in the Baez canon are superb, the quieter ones are even better, and Mary Hamilton, which Miss Baez sings softly with very little modulation in volume, was clearly the high point of the evening...
...message is in the little red Day-Glo stickers (JESUS LOVES YOU, TURN ON TO JESUS) that he and his followers plant everywhere. Part of the message is in the drug argot that he raps out to his street audiences: "You don't need no pills. Jes' drop a little Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Christ is the ultimate, eternal trip...
...Then. His dancers, tricked out in crushed-velvet pantsuits by Yves St. Laurent, open with the springy "L'Amour du Métier" (The Love of Show Business). As they sing, they flit in and out of a flashing construction of steel tubes designed by the Venezuelan painter Jesús Raphael Soto. Then the Tiller Girls, 16 bright British birds whose forebears were the original inspiration for the Radio City Rockettes, descend from the ceiling in sentinel boxes. Their number is followed by blonde-wigged nudes and a sleekly sophisticated pas de deux executed by a pair...