Word: jiving
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That recorded message, backed by a bluesy jive, greets anyone who phones Boston-based Singer Ralph Graham when he is not at home. A call to the Manhattan apartment of Warren Farrell, a spokesman for the men's liberation movement, evokes the answer: "Hi, this is Warren and Ursie's answering machine. They are out right now and I'm kind of lonely. Would you let your voice fall on my tape?" Country Religious Singer Kenneth Medema uses fully orchestrated background tracks from his recordings with lyrics modified to regale callers...
...obviously found the multicultural gumbo of California ideal for developing a fiction in which facts, academic speculations and just plain jive freely cohabit. The overall effect in Louisiana Red is thoroughly disarming. His approach to the novel is not unlike a Dixieland band's approach to music: a native American diversity that adds up to a unified style-authentic and endlessly fresh. -R.Z. Sheppard
...stay on the air the whole season), although it is logical to assume that the women who are pioneering in police work at the detective level these days are likely to be rather more idiosyncratic than the average meter maid. Certainly they are more interesting than Graves' jive-talking, hip-swinging, street-smart chick-a currently modish figure in blaxploitation movies. Dickinson, to be sure, is a little less stereotyped, but her show's creators are undecided as to whether she should be den mother or kid sister to the squad room, and they really ought to come...
...MARSHALL, 66, a Democrat appointed by Lyndon Johnson in 1967, won a score of cases while representing the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund before the Supreme Court prior to 1962, but now finds himself in the Burger Court's liberal minority. The court's best raconteur, who sometimes likes to jive groups of whites by lapsing ostentatiously into a broad black dialect. Has collected an informal panel of law professors and judges to help choose his clerks, who as a result are now usually the best in the building. Still impatient with legal complexities, preferring to go to the right...
...such brocade, sequin, mascara-and rouge-wearing performers as Todd Rundgren, Suzi Quatro, Alice Cooper and the New York Dolls. Occasionally a glitter singer like England's bisexual David Bowie is actually good. Mostly, though, admits the Dolls' David Johansen, "the whole glitter trip is just jive." A concert can also be simply an excuse for youngsters to come out for a reasonably harmless masquerade party. The kids go on parade to show off their white tuxedos and top hats, feather boas, and of course glitter, lavishly applied to face and body...