Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hernia is a rupture, or break, usually in a muscle, that permits an organ to protrude through it. A hiatal hernia is an enlarged opening at the point where the gullet goes through the diaphragm. A relatively small hernia will permit the lowest part of the gullet to slide upward into the chest, while a larger one will let part of the stomach slide up (hence the synonym "sliding hernia" for a hiatal hernia). In such cases, some of the stomach's acid contents flow back up into the gullet, causing irritation and inflammation (esophagitis...
...work among people,' each one would be faced constantly with the fact of his own death"), and even resented by his family for the inconvenience of his miracle ("We're Before and After people now," laments his wife). His life after death, not surprisingly, becomes a downhill slide: the authorities strip him of his children, his neighbors stone him and his wife commits suicide. Finally, he completes his mortem interruptam...
...travelled and played with one of the greatest and most innovative blues people, Robert Johnson (who was killed in 1937 at the age of 21). Like Robert Johnson, who wrote such great songs as the classic "Dust My Broom" and Muddy Waters" "Walking Blues," Johnny Shines plays a beautiful slide guitar and sings with a clearness and urgency that can hardly be matched. Shaky Walter along with Sunnyland Slim, and Willie Dixon (who wrote such classic songs as "Hoochie Coochie Man" and "I Just Want To Make Love To You") and Clifton James (who backs Bo Diddley on his recordings...
...might be wary of all these "Allstars" in one group. But they work together beautifully, all springing from the same great tradition of Delta blues. And when Johnny Shines went into his "tribute to a friend, the late Robert Johnson," playing "standing' at the Crossroads" with his mellow slide guitar, and a slight tremble in his voice, the rest of the band came right together. And that was the blues--no longer a legend; very much alive...
...SLIDE sequence follows. The dancers grow angrier, more passionate. The music begins to sound like the fire of machine gun bullets, interspersed with air raid sirens. The slides and music literally assault your senses, but they assault the dancers as well; at the end of the movement, when the dancers stretch their agonized hands high in the air, their shadows projected 20 feet high on the screen behind them, they are not groping only for themselves...