Word: singe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...logs arranged like benches beneath towering elms, an enraptured, mostly young and blue-jeaned audience listens as Bessie Jones, a spirituals singer, talks about the songs her slave grandfather used to sing in the cotton fields in Virginia. As her vibrant, mellow voice lifts into song ("I'm going to lay down my life for my Lord"), the young people clap their hands in rhythm...
...Palace in late spring are rich with blossoms. Korean men still like to relax and discuss the business of the day at a Kisaeng party, the Korean equivalent of a geisha soirée. Less contrived and artful than its Japanese counterpart, a Kisaeng party is a time to sing, dance, talk and relax...
...sort of anxious resignation set in. A scene that looked relatively simple laid out on the director's storyboard, one that called only for Bruce to negotiate a left turn, might take two days to shoot. To combat ennui, Spielberg and Dreyfuss would sing comedy songs by Stan Freberg, a hero of their teen-age years. Spielberg also had a primitive projection room constructed on one of the boats. "Universal had only two films they could send us from their Boston office," Spielberg recalls. "We watched Ma and Pa Kettle On the Farm...
...throwing off a puritanical upbringing, he tirelessly pursued sexual conquests, grappling in the backs of taxis, making passes in tango palaces. His most satisfying affair was with a woman he later wrote about in Memoirs of Hecate County, a waitress from a Brooklyn slum who had a husband in Sing Sing...
Hint of Passion. At 25, Parsons was already a star of longhair country, who was stretching folk material across thudding rock rhythms. Emmylou had a gift for penetrating to the heart of a lyric. Parsons taught her to sing honky-tonk ballads like his Sin City, and soon invited her to Los Angeles to do back-up harmonies for his albums (GP and Grievous Angel). When Parsons died in 1973, she was personally and professionally devastated. "Gram turned me on to root country, to George Jones with his East Texas twang," she says. "I still try to learn Gram...