Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about 125 people at the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, the life of a nation is similar to the life of a person. "In our youth we can be wasteful, but we have to correct our mistakes before it's too late," he said...
Rockford is a lot cooler than his late night competition. Johnny Carsoin isn't really cool and half the time he has some hopeless boring cripple like Rich Little filling in for him. Baretta is sexy but not very cool, although his bird is cool. Barnaby Jones was cool when he worked for President McKinley. Mannix's theme song is cool, but he gets slugged in the medulla too often to be cool. Starsky and Hutch are the antithesis of cool, with their bullshit Trans Am and all. Banacek could never be cool with that haircut...
Pink Flamingoes. It's late. The bars are crowded, cramping your style. You're wrecked, and your best friend, with blurry-eyed bravado, suggests you go see the greatest movie ever made at its midnight showing at the Welles, Pink Flamingoes. Can you hold you liquor? How unshakable is your friendship? Because this movie and its transvestite hero(ine) Divine aim to reverse your digestive process, and may well succeed. Or perhaps you too consider life reducible to the most blatantly vile, the most howlingly revolting possible common denominator...
Jazz musicians of Byard's generation found a variety of ways to cope with the lean years of the late '60s and the rampant commercialism of the '70s music scene. A very few were lucky enough to retain some following without compromising their musical ideals. Many were forced to resort to a) "crossing over" to the lucrative popular music field; b) giving up on music and starving as recluses; or c) simply dying young. Jaki Byard represents a growing number of jazz figures who have averted both personal and artistic disaster by "taking it easy" and weathering this hyper decade...
Hancock responded to his critics by bringing together the V.S.O.P. Quintet, basically a reformation of a ground-breaking Miles Davis group minus Miles, at the 1976 Newport Jazz Festival. The Quintet played the kind of dense, improvisational music that Miles had been experimenting with in the late '60s, and their performance was so well received that the Quintet recorded two live albums and went on a major concert tour in 1977. Their reunion was highly-touted and very well attended, and the musicians were praised for revitalizing exciting and difficult musical forms...