Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the bad jokes making the rounds in San Francisco's financial district (What do you call a 28-year-old trader in suspenders? Hey, waiter!) to the hand-lettered sign in the window of Cafe Chameleon, a Manhattan nightclub: SO YOUR BROKER'S A LITTLE BROKER? Says Edward Singer, 62, a Portland, Ore., broker: "These younger money managers had become godlike in giving advice...
Late-night coffee drinkers and North Yardlings will be left remembering "the day the music died" for at least this month, since an official at Harvard Real Estate (HRE) last week suspended the popular street singer Luke's permit to perform in Forbes Plaza, the Harvard-owned square in front of Au Bon Pain...
...complexity and rarity, Revelation was the big attraction. Partch's own libretto alternates between two analogous fleshly rites: the orgiastic reception by female fans accorded to Dion (Obba Babatunde), a Presley symbol, and the lustful revels of the mythic Bacchae in praise of their priapic god, Dionysus. Each principal singer takes two roles. Mom (Suzanne Costallos) falls under the Pelvis' spell, just as her ancient Greek counterpart, Agave, is seduced by Dionysus. When Sonny (Christopher Durham) attempts to intervene, he is, in his alter ego of Pentheus, torn apart by the horde of crazed women...
...roll. His twangy blues guitar fused -- indeed, electrified -- rhythm and blues and country music, even as his popularity helped desegregate early rock. His lyrics rollicked with internal rhymes, subversive satire and a wit that bent and broadened the language. He demolished the pop-music wall that had long separated singer and songwriter; now a man could perform his own compositions and do it with amazing sass. He could do wrong too, and here again Berry was a pioneer. Through decades of one-night stands, too much monkey business and a few command performances in stir, he fixed the image...
...shakes dust out of his overgrown locks, he is a brooding, inarticulate animal. He is utterly uninteresting as an actor, and only in the film's final scene as he sings "Rooms for the Memory" does he exhibit the sensuality and vitality that make him an outstanding lead singer. By that point in the movie, however, it's too little too late...