Word: marination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secure lyrically. There have been two solid albums since Moondance, His Band and the Street Choir and Tupelo Honey, and Van Morrison has become immensely popular. He came to the Orpheum on the crest of another change. He moved to California from Woodstock, New York, made a home in Marin County, and documented the change on Tupelo Honey. The most consistent aspect of Van and his music is his ability and willingness to change both...
Peter Wolf introduced Van as "the Belfast Cowboy and his band." An accurate description of an emigrated Irishman now living in Marin County. Van Morrison makes music that is heavily influenced by the indigenously American music of black people. Yet, it's synthesized into an intensely personal music with its own statement. Since Moondance, that statement has been joyous. Van Morrison makes music that's fun to listen to; comes straight to your heart like a cannonball...
...contests that she bought the shootout weapons. Or that she was friendly with young Jonathan Jackson, perpetrator of the Marin County courtroom kidnaping in which a judge and three others died. The prosecution argues that such facts show means and opportunity. Miss Davis' flight into hiding after the plot failed will be offered as proof of guilty behavior...
...cater to the individual tastes of their customers, banks have long printed checks in a wide spectrum of colors. More recently some have begun to offer checks with floral or scenic backgrounds. Now the modest-sized Bank of Marin in Marin County, Calif., has gone one step further. Its customers can simply bring in their own photograph or drawing and have them printed onto a standard check form...
...August 1970, Jackson's younger brother Jonathan, 17, tried to kidnap a judge and four others from the Marin County, Calif., courthouse. He reportedly said that he meant to use his hostages to bargain for release of the Soledad Brothers. In the shootout that followed, the judge, young Jackson and two of his accomplices were killed. About a year later, George Jackson, then 30, was fatally shot at San Quentin in what prison authorities called an escape attempt. Last week, ironically, Drumgo, 26, and Clutchette, 29, were acquitted of the Soledad guard's murder by an all-white...