Word: slick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World, for example, is a number that, says Lead Singer Marty Balin, celebrates the "fantastic joy of making love while under LSD." Their latest single, White Rabbit, is a fantasy about a kind of Alice in Wonder-drugland that is "aimed at the twelve-year-old junkie." Explains Grace Slick, a striking former model who gives the Airplane go-power with her big, belting blues voice: "It doesn't matter what the lyrics say, or who sings them. They're all the same. They say, 'Be free -free in love, free...
...Potpourri. The crew aboard the Airplane is in their middle and late 20s. Musically, they represent a kind of pop potpourri: Balin and Kantner are refugees from folk music, Drummer Spencer Dryden and Guitarist Jack Casady from jazz, Singers Jorma Kaukonen from blues and Grace Slick from pop. Together they produce a lilting, carefree music that crosses so many stylistic lines that they are the only rock group to be invited to both the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Berkeley Folk Festival, not to mention gigs with the San Francisco Symphony and TV's highbrow Bell Telephone Hour...
Magraw said before the committee met, "The push for the Friday extension [in the Fall] was a slick, behind-the scenes affair, low-key and rational." He thought that the Palazzo movement was "just the opposite," cramping the committee's style. "It's not that I like it that way," the HUC head said later. "That is just the way the Masters work. It's regrettable, but that is the way we have to approach this thing to get changes...
Center fielder Lord then struck out swinging, but got to first when the wildly-thrown third strike got past the catcher. Smith jogged in from third on the wild pitch with Harvard's second run. After a slick doubleplay, Pete Karegeannes rescued Hootstein with a sharp single for the third...
Then with one out, N.U. put together three walks and two infield hits for their two runs. Aided by the slick fielding of Dick Manchester, who was immense in the shoes of injured Nelly Houston, peters settled down and crushed the Huskies' comeback hopes...