Word: semis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ONCE AGAIN, this time with The Savage Messiah Ken Russell has reduced the art of biography to semi-porno voyeurism in Bohemian meller terms the least we might expect from biography is a token effort at vensimulitude. But Russell ransacks the facts and substitutes his hyped-up version of artistic truth in tasteless tribute to the life of Henri Gaudier Brzeska...
...sloop racing, the boats are twice the size of the dingys used in regular sailing competitions. Putnam--along with a crew of David Brownlee. Rick White and Francis Ganong--has won both preliminary and semi-final trials held earlier in the season...
Throughout the decade he continued as a semi-public participant in the debate over American policy. But in retrospect, he has a strange enthusiasm for labelling his efforts failures. He describes his delinquencies as ambassador to the Soviet Union, a post he lost when that government declared him persona non grata. He recounts his misadventures as Kennedy's ambassador to the Yugoslavs, and his resignation from the post after a disastrous run-in with Wilbur Mills. By cataloguing numerous failures, he successfully dissociates himself from the outcome of American diplomacy, but at the same time makes his career sound very...
...surprised to see a brightly-colored, semi-profound epigram affixed to the wall next to the desk of Nixon press aide Maxine Paul. The epigram, lettered in the style of Sister Corrita, read: Do Not Cry Because The Sun Has Gone, For Your Tears Will Blind You To The Stars...
...WHICH is not to say that the Airmen are not skilled at their trade. Cody's piano riff, are great if you notice them frolicking around in the background. And the pedal-steel player is also proficient, he is just asked to do too much. "Semi-Truck" and "Windshield" actually turn out as pleasant little ditties, well suited for bouncing along through the countryside. "Cravin' Your Love," a slow number, is perhaps the best cut on the album, simply because it abandons the café atmosphere for a fuller sound closer to rock and roll. "Tutti Frutti...