Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clothes soaked with perspiration. The hotels and restaurants were overcrowded with pilgrims to Graceland. The policemen and firemen were out on strike, and the National Guard was patrolling the city in jeeps. In Washington, the House Assassinations Committee was hearing testimony on the 1968 slaying in Memphis of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Into Memphis on August 15 rode the Elvis Presley Memorial Bus Tour out of Connecticut and western Massachusetts, uninterested in anything but the visiting hours at Graceland and the lengths of the waiting lines there. The leader of the policemen's union had threatened to shut...
...reminded me too much of Ronnie Howard, plays Johnny, the American soldier, with just the right touch of geewhiz and charm. He is an innocent cast among the crazy, and he reacts accordingly. His voice isn't great, but he pulls off his numbers with no major trouble. Millicent Martin, as the madam, has too many songs and becomes boring after the first act. The show runs about two and a half hours--far too long, particularly in the first act--and I suspect some of Ms. Martin's numbers will feel the knife in the near future...
...Long Island district in the New York State Senate before she took her current post, said her participation in the civil rights protests of the sixties affected her for life. She added, however, "I was the only person to mess however, "I was the only person to miss Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream...
...group of prescient liberals including Michael Walzer, professor of Government, and Martin Peretz, then-lecturer on Social Studies, took out newspaper ads supporting incumbent Republican Governor Francis Sargent against his ADA-endorsed Democratic opponent, Michael Dukakis. The ads basically pointed out that Sargent was a good liberal who supported social welfare programs for the poor, and that a bird in the hand, etc... Dukakis won anyway, 65 per cent to 35 per cent. And the worst nightmares of the liberals have come true...
...older than the four grandchildren that stem from his first marriage). But Willie knows the touring will never end. First and last he is a honky-tonk troubadour. To see him on a bandstand is to see a man truly in his element. He is hunched over his battered Martin acoustic guitar, nodding and smiling as the applause of recognition washes over the opening bars of each number; singing to a shouted obbligato of "You said it, Willie! Sing it!"; swigging a beer between phrases or cheerfully knocking back the shots of booze passed up to him from the audience...