Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parade was in honor of the tenth anniversary in power of Zaïre's ebullient President, Mobutu Sese Seko, 45. Wearing his familiar leopard-skin hat, Mobutu proudly watched the arms roll by from a red-canopied reviewing stand, surrounded by nine fellow African heads of state. Less conspicuous, but equally welcome, were dignitaries representing Zaïre's military suppliers, including U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Edward Mulcahy and China's Education Minister Chou Jung-hsin. In fact, Zaïre, the former Belgian Congo, has good relations with practically everyone...
...simply did not sound like anything else being played at the time. Listening to his first two albums you wondered if Springsteen had slept through the Sixties, for his style owed almost nothing to recent groups: his music was influenced directly by rhythm and blues and early rock and roll, not rhythm and blues as the Rolling Stones played it and rock as handed down by the Beatles and the Grateful Dead. Springsteen managed to use the old rock idioms of '50s dance music in a style...
...Springsteen's lyrics apart from the vast majority of rock songs was that they were worth listening to. Even though his imagery was accessible and his themes were easy to relate to, he successfully managed to avoid banality. Springsteen grasped one of the basic problems of rock and roll: as a mass-culture, relatively unsophisticated art form, it deals best with simple ideas and emotions, conveyed straightforwardly ("I wanna hold your hand", "I can't get no satisfaction"), and because of that, runs the risk of becoming mediocre. Springsteen doesn't try to be another Dylan...
...wear ruby cluster pinky rings) Clemmons and Van Zandt looked like bouncers at an Atlantic City nightclub who wouldn't want to let the likes of Springsteen in. The energy level was high throughout the show: most of his songs are individual jewels of energetic rock and roll, and Springsteen kept them coming without a break. He played for almost two and a half hours without stopping more than a minute between songs...
...down the street every day. They watched her pass by every day for two years, all wanting to ask her name, or ask her out, but none of them ever got up the nerve. Then she moved away. For an encore, Springsteen did a medley of old rock and roll tunes, including "Devil with the blue dress on", and, in keeping with the season, a cutesy Fifties rock version of "Santa Claus is coming to town." Also as an encore, Springsteen played a romantic, lyrical version of "For You," from his first album, accompanied only by his own piano playing...