Word: libbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...song's basically whimsical nature is belied by a funky, uptempo arrangement right out of Sinatra doing "That's Life." It's the good old uptempo blues: sax solos, blues guitar phrases abound. Morrison torch sings it, bending notes, phrases, whole lines, and finishing with a properly respectful ad lib...
Born. To Jane Fonda, 35, Oscar-winning actress (Klute) and militant champion of such liberal causes as Indian rights and Women's Lib, and her husband since January, Tom Hayden, 33, one of the Chicago Seven and most recently a witness for the defense in the Pentagon papers trial: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Troy O'Donavan Garity...
...Before his expeditions to Iceland and Paris, Henry Kissinger tarried in Manhattan long enough to celebrate his 50th birthday. TV's Barbara Walters toasted his contribution to Women's Lib. He has, she said, "made careers for countless women." Peter Peterson, former Secretary of Commerce, claimed that he had seen Henry cross 1973 A.D. off an official document and write 50 A.K. Peterson's remark, replied Kissinger, "illustrated the closeness and warmth that has characterized the White House...
What would normally be in store for Kate? Literarily, she might in this day and age wind up embalmed as the heroine of a Jean Kerr comedy, or a case history for Women's Lib (Anatomy is not Destiny, etc.). In life, Doris Lessing notes, Kate's future would be a slow, desperate struggle against the signs of decay-"tinting her hair, keeping her weight down, following the fashions carefully so that she would be smart but not mutton dressed as lamb...
...offer. She is increasingly haunted by a vision of society's collapse, and maybe the world's-a coming darkness which at best will bring with it changes so radical that such things as the plight of the individual ego, for instance, or Women's Lib, will "look very small and quaint...