Word: nico
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Around (Stiff/Columbia) and Lene Lovich: Stateless (Stiff/Epic) arrive via England from that paragon of excellent eccentricity, Stiff Records, where these young women are not only la-belmates but exemplars of the two extremes of rock vocal styles, contemporary female division. Lovich seems to have tak en vocal seminars from Nico and Patti Smith. Her songs (many co-written by Lovich) are feckless threnodies about lovelessness, entrapment and alienation. Sweet, who is sunnier in disposition, lays down a sort of teasing, jailbait rock that relies on snappy melodies and gum-cracking sensuality...
...could find people with names like Umdoistrês de Oliveira Quatro, meaning, One-two-three de Oliveira Four, and Rolando pela Escada a Baixo de Almeida, meaning, Rolling Down the Stairs de Almeida. A notary recently refused to register babies with the names Esquisofrênico, Hexagonal, Pugnacious...
...their offhand approach to this rather rigid form, the commissaris books most closely resemble the mysteries of Nico las Freeling. But Van de Wetering's inspiration was the late Robert van Gulik, a mystery writer and Oriental scholar who was once the Dutch Ambassador to Japan. He appears briefly in The Japanese Corpse - as a helpful ambassador...
...Nico Diederichs, the 71-year-old financial expert who is credited with boosting South Africa's growth rate in recent years, is among the most ardent advocates of the National Party's hard-line white supremacy policy...
...Nico Diederichs has become known in the East African states as "the voice of apartheid" since an interview in October with a Kenyan journalist in which he said that South Africa was a "white man's country" and would remain...