Word: singed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finally people have learned to understand the Negro's music [June 28] why the hell can't they understand the man or woman who's singing it? Soul music is not something that just came on the scene, it has been here since the black man came to America; it started way back in those cotton fields in Mississippi, Georgia, etc. That was all we had, when we were out in the hot sun picking cotton; finally a nice cool breeze came and you just had to let someone know that you had the feeling...
...bordered stained-glass panels reminiscent of Raoul Dufy. The King is now clad in gold with white boots, and there are seven colorful flagbearers in position. It is a fine touch in this highly ritualistic play that the King and the Lord Marshal (penetratingly projected by Robert Lumish) actually sing some of their lines here as though running through a formulaic and time-honored chant. An onstage sidedrummer accompanies the King's staircase descent and ascent...
...trumpeter who kept the nation jumping during the swing era; in Los Angeles. Born Harry Finkelman, he changed his name after he signed with Benny Goodman in 1936, joined the Tommy Dorsey band in 1940, and after the war formed his own group. His signature tune, And the Angels Sing, which he adapted from a Jewish wedding dance, was the best-known piece in a musical bag filled with inventiveness...
...first the idea was 'movement building.' The Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy decided to keep his demands vague. He would bring his troops to Washington, camp out, moan, sing and wait. Resurrection City would be the core around which a political movement would then materialize...
Inadmissible Evidence is also a feast of literacy. At his best, John Osborne can make words spit, sing, keen and dance. In this film, he has something to say and knows how to say it. Nicol Williamson does the rest with abrasive splendor; one crease in his troubled brow is an abyss of anguish...