Word: singer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle of Arlo's hilltop meadow in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. "It was the kind of wedding," a friend said, "where nothing could go wrong. If it did, it was incorporated into the proceedings." Arlo's mother, the widow of the great dust-bowl folk singer Woody Guthrie, and 40 or so friends and relatives came up from New York by special bus. The bus was late, and could not make it up the last hill. No matter. Everybody, including Justice of the Peace Donald M. Feder, just waited happily, drinking champagne or beer and eating Alice...
...Arlo placed crowns (plastic) of stephanotis and ivy leaves in their hair, and were attired in fairyland white-the bride in a shimmering velvet gown and train with lace trim, the bridegroom in a puffed-sleeve shirt and bell-bottom trousers. While the dogs barked a processional, Folk Singer Judy Collins sang Leonard Cohen's Suzanne ("She's touched your perfect body with her mind"). Arlo's mother read a poem that Woody, who died in 1967, had written years ago for his son's wedding: "May your gladness ripen as a yellow sweet fruit...
SIAM MIAMI, by Morris Renek. The trials of a pretty pop singer who tries to sell herself and save herself at the same time. Astoundingly, she manages both...
...Resentment is succeeded in turn by bargaining-a campaign, often undetectable, to somehow stay execution of sentence. A difficult patient may abruptly turn cooperative; the reward he seeks for good behavior is an extension of life. The author cites the poignant case of an opera singer, her face consumed by a fatal malignancy, who begged for a chance to sing one last time; thus, death would have to wait...
...Leslie Uggams Show, and its star, contradicted most of the week's other evidence that the industry is immune to progress. The black singer, after all, made her TV debut in the patronizing Beulah series and then sang along with Mitch before taking over the Smothers' time slot last week. Now, at 26, she has emerged with a sweet, sassy authority that is just right for a variety-hour headlmer. She sang Those Were the Days with a panache that made the Mary Hopkin original seem lifeless. She played willing straight girl to Impressionist David Frye...