Word: popping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remarked of Napoleon. But the French certainly do not share that feeling. Despite devaluation of the franc, France this week celebrates the 200th anniversary of Bonaparte's birth, gripped by an unprecedented outbreak of Napoleonomania. Traveling by ship and plane to Napoleon's Corsican hometown of Ajaccio (pop. 50,000), more than 200,000 tourists will enjoy fireworks and street dancing, hear President Georges Pompidou deliver the bicentennial address and watch 3,500 French légionnaires, dressed as the Emperor's grognards (grumpy veterans), parade through the spruced-up city...
MASTERS OF POP: INNOCENCE, ANARCHY AND SOUL (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). This rock special features the talents of Lulu, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and The Trinity, Lance LeGault, Chris Farlowe, Don Lang and Lonnie Donegan...
Krassner has a point. John Wayne has become one of the pop-artifacts of contemporary life. He carries with him the unmistakable aura of camp and comic strip, as if his conversation came in balloons. As if when he slugged the opposition there would issue forth a thunderous THWACK! and SOCKO! In person, the seamed, leathery face seems an extension of his saddle. A handshake lets the visitor know how a baseball feels when it is swallowed by Frank Howard's glove. True, the unwigged forehead goes clear back to his crown, but the size-18 neck defies collars...
...Uganda-one of Africa's most Christianized countries-but during the visit of Pope Paul VI last week, it seemed as if all of its 9,000,000 citizens had become instant Romans. There were Pope Paul coins, Pope Paul stamps and Pope Paul folk songs, including a pop calypso that likened the Pontiff's visit to "a shooting star in the dark of the night." Shop-door signs along the papal route proclaimed "Pepsi Welcomes the Pope...
...promoter has to take three or four second-rate acts to get a good name group. This summer's disturbances, however, do not mean that there is something inherent in rock that automatically leads to rioting; too many kids have lived un-rebelliously with today's pop sound for that to be true. Instead, the festivals seem to have become an experience akin to the spring vacation at Fort Lauderdale, where swarms of beery or pot-high youngsters congregate for a bash to remember. Says Ray Riepen, president of the Boston underground radio station WBCN: "A rock festival...