Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are other, easier ways to make a lot of money. Go into the stock market. Why do people do the public-hippie trip? Well. Entertainers occupy a quasi-sexual world onstage, symbolically conquering entire audiences with their vasty charms. A good rock performer must maintain a tremendously sexual presence onstage, and let it be known in various ways that he's got a bigger one than any two men in the audience. C.F. Mick Jagger or Hendrix. By throwing your head around dramatically, by sweating a lot, by swinging your libidinously sweat-curled hair like an escaped rapist...
...their sound is unique. The only two groups that have done remakes of Who songs are the Amboy Dukes, and Count Five, but both of them were dismal limitations. Look at the individual members of the group. Peter Townshend plays lead and writes most of the songs. A lot of the time he plays chorded lead like the Stones on "Jumpin Jack Flash." A lot of the time he uses feedback. His lead is never predictable or clear cut; more so live than on the records. Often the breaks in songs performed are unrecognizable if you don't know...
...This doesn't mean a lot to me, you know, all this talk about music. I can't feel it, you know, just from words like that. What about lyrics, man, do they have anything...
...Hackaday. The committee turned down dozens of requests to perform from would-be entertainers all over the land, including an acrobatic group, an Illinois woman who claimed to be a coloratura soprano, and a lady from Texas who said she had shouted "Amen!" during a Nixon campaign speech. "A lot of people get the idea that this is some sort of variety show," says Assistant Ball Chairman Henry Berliner Jr. "It isn't. It is a ball, a dance, and just that." (In 1965, President Johnson's inaugural committee turned down a California man who offered to whistle...
David Cochran '70, uncontested candidate for Briggs Hall president, worried that "a lot of people are complaining that I'm going to get first choice of rooms for next year." No one cares enough to oppose his candidacy--Briggsites apparently lack ambition with regard to the dorm power structure. One Cliflie said of Cochran, "He's a sucker...