Word: rockingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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YOUR OWN THING slides Shakespeare's Twelfth Night into the 20th century with rock music and the unisex look of the with-it generation. Leland Palmer lends rag-doll insouciance to a perpetual-motion Viola...
...Fire). But the Folsom album seems to appeal to a wider, more diverse audience than anything else he has evej done; it ranks among the top choices of the bestseller charts not only for country music but also for pop, and it has received glowing reviews in the underground rock publications...
...staged an extravaganza for college-age youths, featuring computers that analyzed their handwriting, phrenologists who measured their skulls, fortunetellers who gazed into their futures and rah-rah cheerleaders who simply looked attractive. There were also karate lessons, instructions on how to pack a suitcase and the sounds of 15 rock bands. The affair drew 12,000 young people, one of whom made off with the door prize of a live horse...
...preface to this sometimes sentimental, often satirical, collection of short stories and essays, Kurt Vonnegut concludes: "Perhaps it would be helpful to imagine me as the White Rock girl, kneeling on a boulder in a nightgown, either looking for minnows or adoring her own reflection." It is easier to imagine the author of six novels -among them God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater and Cat's Cradle-as a zany but moral mod scientist at the controls of a literary time machine. He is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one 45-year-old writer exploring...
...time when most U.S. rock jockeys are screaming egomaniacs, Drake advises his stations to end the cult of nonstop talkers. Even Murray the K, the nation's best known jock, was forced out shortly after Drake's firm moved in at WOR-FM in Manhattan. Murray, noting his "plastic-voiced" successors and their less adventurous choice of records, predicted disaster for Drake. But in the eleven months since, Drake has doubled the ratings and put money-losing WOR-FM in the black...