Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 1:30-2:30 p.m.). "Clown and Other Stories" are three award-winning French short films about the fantasies of childhood...
...Left-handers are not the only ones who must negotiate a world designed for others. Take, for example, tall people-like myself-who find door lintels conveniently at forehead level, hotel beds several inches too short, and theater seats with just enough leg room to push one's knees into one's face. But that's not the worst of it: we also find that almost all the pretty women are too short...
...Bitterness. Since 1956, Davies has partly supported himself, his wife and seven children on $4,000 a year in retirement pay. In 1964, he published Foreign and Other Affairs, a collection of short essays. In it, he described himself somewhat ruefully as "an unfrocked diplomat...
...filled with its regulars. Music from a tape-recorder on a table in the center of the room with a huge lampshade hanging right over, filled with a disturbingly weak bulb. The music was unmentionable top-40 staple. The girl in rapacious charge of the tape-recorder brutally cut short "Hey Jude" saying "I don't like that song at all" to a general chorus of approval. Walls covered with Gauguinesque posters and Peanuts homilies. The kids didn't dance but twitched spasmodically on their way to the bar--once three or four of them went out into the street...
...Grateful Dead took the field midway through the second day. After much exacting tuning and preparation they began--and played without stopping for 45 long, and sometimes short, minutes. The music was essentially freeform or no-form jamming. If you put any bunch of talented musicians on stage and have them improvise for an hour it is inevitable that they will get it together a few times. For all that, it is clear that progressive rock is not instantly exalting the way supreme unvarnished rock 'n' roll (Beatles, Stones, Hendrix, Who, etc.) is. Rather the Grateful Dead came into their...