Word: solider
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Captain Hook, the clock-gulping Croc; Dorothy from Oz and Alice from Wonderland are aboard for this Strange Night Voyage. "Grow young," plead The Merchants. "Stay young while you can." And off these dream vendors sail in a rocking-beat boat to celebrate the joys of childhood fantasies. A solid performance, full of vitality, taste and style, with meticulous, well-wrought orchestration...
...plink out Let Me Call You Sweetheart for reporters on a piano or rib himself on television talk shows, but the grin never seems quite at home on his strong, heavy face. The almost mysterious quality about Richard Nixon is that he is a man of exceptional abilities and solid virtues, but somehow his many parts have always added up to less than a convincing whole. Today he seems closer than ever to overcoming this elusive handicap. He is certainly more confident, more self-assured?and with good reason. He has made an extraordinary political comeback. He worked harder than...
...Hello, Dolly! Off Broadway, Pearlie Mae is an avid spelunker, and she gladly turned up for the dedication of the cavern's "Pearl Bailey Room." As for that cave, which once served as an Underground Railroad stop, it suits Pearl just fine. "That," she pronounced, "is something solid...
Logical Extremes. Born of a solid landowner family in 1883, Webern was trained as a musicologist at the University of Vienna. In 1904, while still a student, he met Arnold Schoenberg and became his lifelong friend and disciple in the cause of overthrowing tonal music. In many areas Webern took Schoenberg's innovations and carried them to logical extremes. When Schoenberg dissolved traditional tonality but continued to work with late Romantic forms, Webern dissolved those too. He obliterated vertical harmonies, broke up melodies into one-or two-note fragments for each instrument and swept away all sense of development...
Within a musical framework of this frenzied a pace there is no place for the eloquent bass guitarist building up elegant harmonies a la Paul McCartney, and John Entwistle knows and does better. A big solid unsmiling figure on stage dressed in black with a white ruffled vest ("I don't move around so I can wear fancy clothes") he is jovial and enourmously pleasant in the dressing room. "There's no other bass guitarist that's better than me because I don't play it like a bass guitar." And it's true, he doesn't. He plays...