Word: looser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very hot, and everybody was getting his little "taste" to cool off. Flasks, bottles, and beer cans were everywhere. Even young teenagers were sipping from foaming bottles held in one hand as they danced, head back, eyes closed. The dancing got looser and wilder and better. It went on like this for blocks and blocks, and the second line got bigger all the time. The musicians bounced along blasting out their roughest and raunchiest music, "Little Liza Jane," "Honky Tonk Town," "Shoutin' Blues." The numbers just kept coming. Battiste strutted sideways, holding his trumpet with one hand, a beer...
...KOOPER (2 LPs; Columbia). Mike Bloomfield makes his singing debut with a couple of Ray Charles songs, among others, and shows a bit of Charles' lilting, hesitating sense of the blues. Bloomfield's forte is still his blues guitar playing, which is at its best on this looser, more spontaneous follow-up to his first performance with Kooper on the LP Super Session...
...into his genre's pitfall: bad amateur anthropology. Their wit not withstanding, his comments on the effect of air conditioning on New York family life do fall into this class, as they become contrived expositions of trivia. He is safer--and much more entertaining--when he sticks to the looser descriptive style of which he is a master...
...captain-elect felt that the first several games this year gave him a great deal of needed confidence and helped him feel looser and play better each week thereafter. His improvement caused coach Tom Stephenson to remark. "John was an unknown quantity at the beginning of the year, but now he's one of the top defensive ends in the league...
...Harvard problem will be when Yale isolates Hill on only one defender. Then it's just a question of who jumps higher, and Hill always wins. I'm pretty sure Yale will get at least a couple of touchdowns. The Elis will be cocky,, but Harvard will be looser. Should be worth the $6 admission price...