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Word: scarlets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Uncle." The first set roamed through Dead history from the early "Too Too Minglewood Blues" and "It's All Over Now," to a new song that must be called "Fire on the Mountain" if the endlessly repeated refrain is any indication. The song worked well as it followed "Scarlet Begonias" after a transition of some smooth and intricate guitar and wah-wah pedal work by Garcia. The unfortunately heavy-handed emphasis on refrains took something away from many songs. The Dead tried too hard to make its tunes resound in the listener...

Author: By Thomas W. Keffer, | Title: A Long, Strange Trip | 4/30/1977 | See Source »

...Only Thing I've Done Wrong borrows heavily from many sources, among them The Scarlet Letter, The Last Summer, the Bible, American Graffitti, Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones, and Osborne's life. It is about San Francisco and sailing in the summer, because Osborne grew up in San Francisco and is "an accomplished sailor...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: An Unoriginal Sin | 4/1/1977 | See Source »

...touch." She insists that she was able to keep him at bay, whatever his claims to the contrary. When she refused Chang Keng's offer of marriage, he forbade the League of Left-Wing Dramatists to give her roles. Worse still, he branded her with the scarlet "T" -spreading the rumor that she was a Trotskyite. Later she did have an affair with a well-known actor and film critic, T'ang Na. There were rumors that they were married. When she finally dropped him, the gossip went, he was driven to the edge of suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: A Blue Apple in a City for Sale | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...Lions then went into a tailspin, losing their fourth in a row in a 47-0 mauling at the hands of Rutgers. Playing in a spanking new Giant Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., the Scarlet Knights made the Hackensack meadowlands look like an explosion in a tomato cannery on a sunset evening...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The Lion Legacy | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

...kids they logged a lot of time in front of the tube watching the late show. Gable, not Dylan, became their hero; Carousel, not Hair, their fantasy musical. Grown up, their look is zoot-suit city: double-breasted and pin-stripe for the gents, shoulder pads and scarlet lipstick for the lady. The New York quintet call themselves Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, and their RCA debut LP is this season's breakaway disco act. The sound: musical gliss that ripples across five decades and combines Hollywood star dust and big-band elegance with Afro-Cuban cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sass and Class | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

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