Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...describe the endlessly astonishing politics of 1968. From the snow frolics of New Hampshire to Senator Mark Hatfield's endorsement of Richard Nixon last week, the body politic has been atwitch with major shocks and minor jolts. It is a year when absolutely anything seems possible, and a lot of people are wondering-half-humorously, half-resignedly-what else might be in store politically. For example...
...country fiddler who heads Memphis' soul-oriented Stax Records. "It's not the moon in June. It's life. Sometimes it's violence and sex. That's the way it is in this world. Sometimes there's animal in it; but let's face it, we've got a lot of animal in us." The difference between Tin Pan Alley and Soul is not hard to define. A conventional tunesmith might write: "You're still near, my darling, though we're apart/ I'll hold you always in my heart." The soul singer might put it: "Baby, since you split...
...about music that needed no gimmickry. She was a completely honest musician." Groomed by Mrs. King, signed to a Columbia Records contract, Aretha began plying a sometimes seamy circuit of jazz and rhythm & blues clubs?with disheartening results. "I was afraid," she says. "I sang to the floor a lot." In the recording studio, she cut side after side with stereotyped pop arrangements ?which sold indifferently. Deep down, she knew what was wrong with her repertory of standards, jazz tunes and novelties: "It wasn't really...
...love with a girl before he joined the force. His arrest of some 175 prostitutes had given him, he said, "a sort of bad attitude toward women in general. I know all women aren't prostitutes, but I think subconsciously it affects me. I go out with a lot of real nice girls and I just can't seem to, you know, get really attached to them." When Hersey asked him if he thought women are "essentially evil," Senak replied: "Who gave who the apple...
...also wrote Is Paris Burning? (a proposition on which Willie would lay even money at the moment). At night, while Myra was washing her hair, Willie read about how El Cordobes, born Manuel Benitez, now 32, got to be champ-fighting 133 bulls in a single summer, a lot of them bums that even Rocky Marciano would have been ashamed to face. Some were purposely starved to make them weak. Others had sandbags dropped on their backs before the fight. Still others had their horns shaved down so that they lost their sense of distance and pulled their punches...