Word: rockers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slush dirt sidewalk, trying to find his way to a gig at Pepper's; there's Hank Williams, the bad cowboy, but he was sad, too, man. Stoic on the floor, the sad-bad hillbilly. Crazy Dylan flagging down huge trucks on Highway 61, the Automatic Kid, Energy Beam Rocker. He can't catch anything, just hold his collar to his neck and fall back when the wind hits him. Charly Parker smiling, no black revolt for him, it's all very foggy, bip-bop, if you would be so kind as to dig that. But Gerry Mulligan says hello...
...crushing it into a monolithic, totally stationary monument with the aid of a commercial hydraulic press. Edward Kienholz makes an irreverent visual joke out of his Friendly Grey Computer. The instructions read: "If you know your computer well, you can tell when it's tired and blue. Turn rocker switch on for ten or 20 minutes. Your computer will love it and work all the harder...
...They are a pleasant, easygoing group with their feet firmly planted on solid rock and enough jazz, blues and soul overtones to make the insistent Green Light, the confidential Bend Me, Shape Me, and the soul of Something You've Got and the slow rock sounds of Mind-rocker interesting, even hummable...
...almond ranches in California will provide Hershey with a source of cheaper nuts. Meanwhile, the company is test-marketing Hershey Chocolate Drink and a new candy bar called Rally. Will they be advertised? Not likely. "It's not necessary," says President Mohler, who keeps his grandfather's rocker in his office and frequently sways back and forth in it while he mulls over the changing times...
Waxing Sarcastic. He held his news conference in the Cabinet Room of the White House, seated in a rocker at the enormous mahogany conference table. When he was asked about rumors of other Cabinet-level resignations, he waxed sarcastic. "I know that some kids have been calling around some of your bureaus predicting that," he said, clearly referring to the Kennedy brothers. "Most of them are not as close to the situation as they might be-or might desire to be." Another newsman asked whether the "kids" were old enough to be Congressmen. "I didn't have any members...