Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other reasons for staying away. Perhaps he still harbors some feat of unknown promoters, preferring the calm efficiency of Bill Graham. But this gathering of over twenty groups of pluckers, singers, strummers, poets, grinners, mimes, pickers, jugglers, solo breakers, films, twangers, storytellers, dulcimer hammerers, balladeers, and at least one sidewalk artist (he draws on sidewalks) is being organized by the Winthrop House Folk and Jazz Society, whose recent spate of profitable concerts proves its competence and artistically populist nature. Whipoorwill Productions, a group of musicians in the festival, is co-sponsoring the event along with the Music Emporium, reportedly...
When he was 23 and waiting for the Italian movie industry to rise from the ashes of World War II, Federico Fellini earned his living in Rome by drawing droll sidewalk portraits of Allied soldiers. He got so good at it that he even opened a little studio called the Funny Face Shop. In the quarter-century since La Strada made him famous, Fellini has never stopped "doodling," as he calls it -turning out thousands of sketches of his actors' faces, costumes and wigs. Unbeknownst to him, some friends organized a show at Zurich's Galerie Daniel Keel...
...good. Jorge Ben is a musician who's been called Brazil's Marvin Gaye, and his latest album, Tropical, is a paean to escapism. Listening to it is like reading stream-of-consciousness poetry--surreal and full of images, from a cafe on a black-and -white mosaic Rio sidewalk to a red-dirt hairpin road winding up a jungled hill in Latin America. It makes you think of visiting Dom Pedro II's cracked stucco palace where you can talk to the 150-year old parrots he kept as pets way back in the mid-1800s...
...peculiar but harmless figure on big-city streets, the lone man walking down a sidewalk, railing loudly at some injustice inflicted by a distant, impersonal tormentor. The angry man who actually acts out his rage usually appears only in films-the demented TV newscaster in Network, for example, who declares war on what he sees as the Establishment and touches a sympathetic nerve in millions of viewers by urging them to shout, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more!" But sometimes he appears in real life...
...Reason to Cry is no reason to rejoice. Let alone dance in the streets. Eric Clapton's latest album is as shiny-slick as an iced-over sidewalk and about as enticing as sit-slideing your away along one--easy, too easy, smooth, too smooth. He sings "Hello Old Friend" all around the AM networks but the lyrics leave you colder than the "Hi! What's happening?" of an acquaintance who passes by before the reply...