Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Incredible String Band, the Elvin Bishop Band and the Marshall Tucker Band finish up the weekend at the Cape Sunday night. The string Band is English and plays olde folke stuff, with lots of mandolins and other esoterica, and is generally soft and pleasant, sometimes extraordinarily lovely. Elvin Bishop was the lead guitarist in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band for years and years and is now on his own. He looks a little like Chico Marx and when he was with Butterfield he held his own playing blues in the same band as Michael Bloomfield, so he's no slouch...
Hemphill was a Nieman Fellow a few years back, and Harvard was not a particularly pleasant experience for him. "It dawned on me, after too many boring cocktail parties with too many terribly proper New Englanders," he says, "that what I was really missing at Harvard was the sweaty passion for life I had always taken for granted while growing up in the South." Being able to capture the sweaty passion is what sustains Hemphill as a writer, and as long as that passion holds out he will be able to rise above the mass of cliches that...
...fate of British Actor Robert Shaw is not pleasant. He will shortly be chewed to death by a mechanical shark called Bruce, even as his salary is chewed up by the IRS. On location in Martha's Vineyard for the movie Jaws, Shaw is impatient with the delays that have put the film two months behind schedule; if he works more than 90 days in the U.S. he will be taxed. "We've got at least another month to go," he groaned in the longueurs between takes...
...which features the amazing stage design of Randall Darwell. Bill Evans will add his share with a work entitled legacy. The Dance Center is offering $2 student tickets for every performance, so if you like dance and can't afford the Moiseyev or the Bolshoi, this is an extremely pleasant substitute. If you're not a student, tickets are $3 in advance and $3.50 at the door. Shows begin...
...which features the amazing stage design of Randall Darwell. Bill Evans will add his share with a work entitled legacy. The Dance Center is offering $2 student tickets for every performance, so if you like dance and can't afford the Moiseyev or the Bolshoi, this is an extremely pleasant substitute. If you're not a student, tickets are $3 in advance and $3.50 at the door. Shows begin...