Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COLOR ME BARBRA (Columbia). Carpers have claimed that the second Streisand TV special was overproduced, but it would take a real Barbraphobe to fault this album of songs from the show. From the soft-shoe shuffle of Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long to Non, C'Est Rien, Streisand's first venture into French, this record extends the image...
...seizing on Viet Nam as a long-shot bet, these candidates have inverted most of the standard political equations. In some races, Republicans are the soft-liners and Democrats the hardliners; in others, antiwar Democrats are running on anti-Administration platforms against Republicans who go all the way with L.B.J. Bitterest of all are the primaries, in which the war has Democrats clawing at Democrats and Republicans at Republicans...
...Swedes were not disturbed one whit. They queued up to enter "the portal of life," clustered about the soft-drink bar inside one breast. Children toboggan down the inside of the right thigh, shrilling, "Oh, what a funny house!" Couples snuggle in the love seat in the left leg, blissfully unaware that the sculptors have hidden microphones that are broadcasting their sweet nothings to the laughing crowd in the breast bar. Youngsters scramble up the stairs through the tummy, pop out of the navel, where there is a conveniently placed table on a terrace...
...behind a screen of greenery. What he sees on a distant park bench eventually lures him out back to where the action is. "It was not so much her good looks, her smooth-brushed brow and firm round neck bowed so that two or three vertebrae surfaced in the soft flesh, as a certain bemused and dry-eyed expression in which he seemed to recognize -himself! She was his better half...
...feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity...