Word: slipstreamer
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...theatrical producer and literary agent. Burton is a celebrated biographer and New Yorker staff writer. And their older brother? Who else? Lenny, the conductor, lecturer, composer and 63-year-old Wunderkind. Family Matters follows all the Bernsteins from obscurity to celebrity, traveling the pull of Lenny's powerful slipstream. As Burton tells it, the early conditions were not propitious for fame. Sam, the father, was a successful businessman, a manic-depressive and a parochial ethnocentric (in later years he would refer to Dwight Eisenhower as General Eisenberg and to Adlai Stevenson as Steve Adelson). He did not regard music...
...years old. When the Rolling Stones played Seattle recently, I got up early and waited in line 24 hours for a ticket. I did this not because I wanted to "ease into the slipstream of a myth," or because it might be their last tour, but because I love their music, wanted to see the band, and have a good time...
...teen-agers who come to the concerts-and at some shows they make up the majority of the audience-this tour is a way to ease into the slipstream of a myth, to check it out firsthand. For their elders, who were teen-agers when the Stones first sang Play with Fire and Satisfaction and Jumpin' Jack Flash back in the high '60s, it is a way-for some, now, the only way-to rejustify and perpetuate the myth. The Rolling Stones are living out, maybe stringing out, the legend, coasting, even capitalizing on it. But the foundation...
...howling one. It is the sound, not of yarns spinning off into the night air, but of men who have chucked the mint julip at their wives and are skyrocketing down the interstate with the top down, their voices drowned out by the rush of the slipstream. It is the voice of the self-conscious who have adopted customs for no good reasons, in a nation which needs that sort of thing. It is the voice of men like...
...hopes to complete his presidential series in 1981) to write what he calls neither an autobiography nor a political history but "a long essay"-a try at fitting together the sights, sounds, persons and episodes that he had witnessed as he had been whipped around in the slipstream of American power. In Search of History: A Personal Adventure will be published in August (Harper & Row; $12.95). It traces White's life from 1915, the year of his birth in Boston, to 1963, the year of John F. Kennedy's murder, a year he terms "the Divide"-not simply...