Word: singed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUMMER LONG (Capitol). "My buddies and me are gittin' real well known," sing the Beach Boys, who sailed over a million with / Get Around. The Beach Boys feature the good California life, just surfing and riding their "groovy little Hondas." But the end of all this Fun, Fun, Fun may be in sight. "We know they're right when they say we're not ready," sings one treble boyish voice. "We'll run away and get married anyhow...
PEPSI-COLA'S UNICEF exhibition warms the heart of every little girl at the fair with a boat ride through a fantasy of Disney dolls. Hundreds and hundreds of them, dressed in saris and kilts, Lederhosen and grass skirts, they wink and blink, nod and grimace, dance and sing to a joyful hymn in praise of world understanding called It's a Small World...
...Instead of being tired, I was exhilarated," said one mother. "In the recovery room," bubbled another, "I wanted to sing and shout about my Pavlov baby." The 300 young women wearing diaper-shaped name tags who flocked around the huge, white-icinged cake in a suburban St. Louis garden last week all showed the same enthusiasm. All of them had given birth without general anesthetics in St. Mary's Hospital, where more (1,182) babies have been delivered by natural child birth than in any other hospital in the U.S. The fifth-birthday celebration of St. Mary...
...solicitous like any other mother, in a matter-of-fact way. As soon as somebody enters the room, she will immediately act a tasteful impersonation of Mother Love. Her face will suddenly shine, tears of affection will fill her eyes, she will crush the infant to her breast, sing to him . . ." But even at its most innocent, the trait lends "a theatrical quality which enhances but slightly distorts all values." From here it is but a step to the "polite lies and flattery," still well-intentioned, which Italians use to make life more agreeable. "Tailors praise your build. Dentists exclaim...
Cellist Charlotte Moorman, who had a concert to herself earlier in the festival in which she played a duet with a mechanized robot equipped with twirling foam-rubber breasts, is told at 36 minutes to "play and sing for four minutes." She can perform anything she likes, so one night she played a Boccherini piece, another night Bach. At 15 minutes, during "a long pause," she is free to do whatever she wants and made dark plans to give Poet Ginsberg a much needed shave, "if he does not resist too much...