Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been in several bands, and their names reflect the changing times in pop music. The Dukes, a Fantasy-Aristocrat Blue Tuxedo Ooh-Wah-Wah Teenage Rhythm and Blues Band; the Boss Dudes, a spiffy Tuff-guy Band; the Hard Times, an L.A. Nice Long Hair Band; the End, a Top-40 Blare-Rock Band; the Church Bizarre, a Funky Blues-Rock Bad-Ass Band; and the Bead Game, a Beautiful People Dope All You Need Is Love Stoned Hippier Than Thou Band. I have been addicted to rock longer than I care to remember...
...musical structure that he favors is basically one of tight bursts of packaged melody--made up of a stinging organ sound, precise drumming and his own jabbing giutar, between intervals of his own singing which is acute and stormy. He also seems to have a nice sense of balance and discretion, rarely overstepping into excess. "Tinker Taylor," for example, has a pleasant original riff and this is milked in the song just about as far as it will go and no more--not pounded to death as some American groups are prone to do with their own minor creations. Within...
...friend: "Isn't it the dream of every American boy to own a football team?" For Danny, at least, it was. So, in 1941, when he was 28 years old, he went out and bought himself a team named the Rams and later he found them a nice home in Los Angeles...
...sewing machine and a pair of pinking shears are the only clues that identify Michele Sapone's ground-floor flat on Nice's Rue de Châteauneuf as a tailor shop. Casual visitors are much more likely to mistake it for an art gallery: about 450 paintings and drawings -many by Europe's best-known contemporary artists - crowd the walls of the waiting room, the workshop, the corridors and even the fitting room. As tailor to more than 100 leading French and Italian artists, Sapone, 56, accepts payment for his clothes in works of art. Says...
...last speech was not as boastful or self-centered as most of the hundreds which preceded it, a fact grate fully noted by all the people who wanted to say something nice about the outgoing President. Wednesday's papers labelled the performance "sentimental" and occasionally even "moving," and the incomparable Jack Valenti said that the speech was an embodiment of the four characteristics of the Johnson Administration -- "breakthrough, beginnings, performance, passion." Everett Dirksen called it a "fine speech," and Tip O'Neill, who came out against the war and then supported McCarthy last year, complained afterwards that the Republicans hadn...