Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happens all the time. An ex-school teacher, nice fellow, intellectual and all that, turns around and knocks out a song and it becomes a big hit. The former teacher in this case is an Englishman named Geoff Stevens, 32, who even sang along in the recording, he says, "just for a giggle." Last week Stevens' Winchester Cathedral, released only six weeks ago in the U.S., had sold 1,000,000 recordings, become No. 1 on Billboard's list of bestsellers, and made stars out of the recording "artists," a British group of young...
...rather breathlessly predicted a "spectacular mass killing" to be staged by the Viet Cong in Saigon before this fall's elections. Yet it is the nature of their column to prepare readers to expect the worst. "It's been said of us that we seldom have anything nice to say about anybody," says Evans. "This is basically true. We are interested in arrangements, deals, quid pro quos. We try to shed light on the subterranean transactions that underlie all politics...
...spite of the fact that the Minnesota state bird is the loon, it would probably be mere appropriate for Vice President Humphrey to order that 20-lb. turkey for Richard Nixon and a nice juicy crow for himself...
...Dick Van Dyke Show)-so Director Abe Burrows (Cactus Flower) tried a re-adaptation. In Philadelphia, Holly came off as a tough $50-a-shot hooker instead of a sweet $50-a-shot hooker. By the time the show reached Boston, Holly had become a nice young thing who might just shack up with anybody for nothing. Worse, Michael Kidd's choreography was more kitsch than kick, while the songs of Bob Merrill scarcely topped the success of his 1953 hit, Doggie in the Window. Holly, wrote Boston Globe Critic Kevin Kelly, was "a multiset disaster, a straightforward musical...
...publishing houses, and asked the receptionist if he could see whoever was in. He was introduced to the general manager and handed him a carefully-assembled tape of twenty original folk-rock songs. The general manager clicked on the tape, listened for perhaps ten seconds, and said "That's nice, but it sounds too much like Peter, Paul, and Mary. We're looking for a group sound like the Spoonful...