Word: kiki
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sell. The originals were much better. Elton's willingness to perform them only showed that his fire was burning out. "Island Girl," an original, was among the most annoying of AM radio's most played tunes. "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," a vapid, iivv number Elton recorded with Kiki Dee, starts nowhere and goes nowhere but takes up four minutes and 23 seconds of air time. In "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" Elton tries to divert the audience's attention from the song's aimlessness by pouring on strings and driving the tune along with relentless loud percussion...
...takes pictures that beckon us to return again and again, like his portrait of a peasant sleeping on a train, oblivious to the landscape whizzing by outside his window, his worn and grizzled head thrown back against the seat, his mouth a gaping black hole. Or his photograph of Kiki, a plump and painted chanteuse whose whole posture reveals her self-assured knowledge that all eyes in the tawdry cabaret are focused...
Divorced. Gilbert ("Mr. 100,000 Volts") Becaud, 45, intense, high-energy French singer-composer (What Now My Love, The Day the Rains Came, Let It Be Me) and Monique ("Kiki") Nicolas Becaud, fortyish; after 20 years of marriage, three children; in Paris...
...subcontracting work to locally owned firms in Japan and Western Europe, and are still expanding that practice. Ford Motor, for example, has signed up Tokyo Shibaura Electric to make most of the generators that will go into its 1971 models, and is dickering to have another Japanese firm, Dieel Kiki, supply many of the compressors needed in auto air-conditioning systems. Lately a growing number of American firms have gone further to set up their own component-manufacturing operations in the lower-wage Asian nations, Signetics Corp., a Corning Glass Works subsidiary, for instance, flies components to Seoul, South Korea...