Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faces. What might have been a contained instance of drug-induced, same-sex experimentation soon erupted into a frenzied orgy of kisses, as the girls began sloppily doling out affection to every member of their party they could get their hands on. As Dylan launched into another unidentifiable song from his new album, and the school girl groping fest continued to pick up speed, I looked around at the crowd of aged hippies. To whom do I owe the amusement of this sordid and poignant spectacle, I wondered? On stage, a burnt-out Dylan tried to work the crowd, still...
...Women, #12 & 35" with its refrain, "everybody must get stoned," brought the crowd to its feet. I'm sure the schoolgirls would have loved it. But I was disappointed. I had come to the concert hoping to hear "Blowin' in the Wind," and Dylan never played it. Perhaps a song like that just doesn't have much appeal anymore...
...third child of Sicilian immigrants, Bono never graduated from high school nor did he ever receive formal musical training. But, in the late '50s, he began hawking his songs to Sunset Boulevard record labels between making stops as a butcher's delivery boy. His big break came when he landed a job as an assistant to superstar record producer Phil Spector. It was during his tenure with Spector that Bono learned to hone his craft as a writer and arranger. In 1964 the Searchers recorded what is considered one of his best songs, Needles and Pins. During that period...
Once labeled a potential "kiss of death" by novelist Saul Bellow, after he won the prize in 1976, the Nobel can be a bittersweet distinction. For William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, the prize was a swan song, a tribute to past masterpieces whose greatness their subsequent work did not approach. For others, it's just a very prestigious distraction. Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska, the 1996 laureate, complained that the prize destroyed her cherished privacy by turning her into an "official person." According to Jonathan Galassi, editor in chief of Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Gordimer's and Walcott's publisher...
...Morrison laughs at a subsequent event that has, in terms of mass recognition, affected her life more dramatically than did the Nobel Prize: the selection, in December 1996, of her 1977 novel Song of Solomon as the second offering of the Oprah Book Club. "I'd never heard of such a thing," she says, "and when someone called, all excited, with the news, all I could think was, 'Who's going to buy a book because of Oprah?'" The answer came fairly quickly and astonishingly. "A million copies of that book sold," she says, again shaking her head. "And sales...