Word: poco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very like their eldest and prettiest daughter, Irene. Most of the novel is devoted to Urie, who is 13 when the book begins; she is an avowed bluestocking blessed with ambition and "a thick ego." Then there is Sylvia, 11, a charming but unfathomable sprite who is called "Loco Poco." Shortly after arriving in Ephesus, Urie forms an intense friendship with an ignorant but brilliant local boy named Zebulon Walley, whose ego is diaphanous and who attaches himself to the Bishops like a starving kitten...
...couple of Dylan albums that at their best moments are just barely tolerable. We have had to rely on second-string groups who continue to produce solid, respectable, and, on occasion, brilliant, records; people like Creedence, the Dead, the Steve Miller Band, Delaney and Bonnie, Elton John, Poco, Leon Russell, Traffic, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. All these people are putting out fine music, but none of them has been able to really challenge that insane devotion that is reserved for the Beatles, the Stones, and Dylan...