Word: scorings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GRADUATE (Columbia). Simon and Garfunkel already had half their work done when they sat down to record this score from The Graduate. As it turns out, it was the better half. Sounds of Silence with its kaleidoscopic imagery was the title tune of their big 1965 album, which also had the gentleness of April Come She Will. Two of the new songs, On the Strip and Mrs. Robinson, are bright and bouncy, but the others, Sun-porch Cha-cha-cha, The Folks and The Singleman Party Foxtrot, don't quite measure...
...hills above them remained to be seen. But, in any case, the allies are not likely to elect to stay in A Shau, given the weather and the number of men who would be tied down in de fending it. Instead, Operation Delaware aimed to even an old score for the men of the Special Forces who fell there in 1966-and to destroy all the equipment and tools of war the Communists have so painstakingly assembled in the valley. In both, it succeeded...
...scene I witnessed at Umuahia's Queen Elizabeth Hospital following the air raid was repeated in nearly every Biafran town I visited. Under tall shade trees outside an already filled mortuary lay a score of corpses, including pregnant women and months-old babies, charred, disfigured and mangled. Amid the tearful cries of keening women, workers carried into the morgue mashed human fragments piled on stretchers, and limbs and torsos balanced on shovels. The next morning, clutching handkerchiefs over nose and mouth against the stench and carrying freshly sawed unpainted wood coffins, the families lined up patiently under the trees...
What holds Hair together is the score, which pulses with an insistent, primitive beat. With gleeful impertinence, the music by Gait MacDermot and the lyrics of Gerome Ragni and James Rado manage to release the pent-up yelps of the sons and daughters of the affluent society. A song like Ain't Got No ("Ain't got no class,/Ain't got no mother,/Ain't got no father,/Ain't got no culture") telegraphs the credo of the self-proclaimed have-nots of the '60s. Satire with a playful nip makes a treat...
Gonzales and Parrot teamed up to score a quick 6-3, 6-4 victory at number two doubles...