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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Concertgoer Joan Baez | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Street Christians: Jesus as the Ultimate Trip | 8/3/1970 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Old-Fashioned Insouciance | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

...matter, now," he said softly. "We're going to be way back in the pack anyway. Our luck just seems to be bad here. You know, Ward," he said in a very tired drawl. "I'm bout as old as you are, and that's pretty old. I jes don't know how long I can keep going." Ward made a half-hearted attempt at a recovery, and then smiled a PR man smile until the engineer n the booth mercifully switched back to Jim McKay. The next day Ruby ran very fast, but blew up two engines without completing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Racer's Weekend: ???ndianapolis 1970 | 5/29/1970 | See Source »

...laughed, we knew they were happy. They had to be happy. We wouldn't admit they might not want to accept our society, a society built on their sweat and labor. So we denied them their full humanity and we put them up there on that stage and we jes let 'em laff it up. We couldn't admit they were a problem...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Fortune and Men's Eyes | 3/22/1969 | See Source »

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