Word: songful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With ten months to go before the Republican Convention, every professed non-candidate last week was waging his noncampaign in his own noncommittal way. George Romney found his way out of the washing machine and into the ghetto. Nelson Rockefeller hummed September Song. Ronald Reagan transferred his pragmatic ire from Berkeley to the conduct of the war. And Rich ard Nixon, purring like a tabby at the cream bowl, mourned the decline of American prestige abroad...
...nude close to his lost friend's body. It was, ruled the jury, a "deliberate form of frenzy." So, in a way, was Orton's funeral (Halliwell was buried separately). Instead of organ requiems, the service was accompanied by a recording of Orton's favorite song, the Beatles' A Day in the Life. Playwright Harold Pinter read a few lines of poetry and Actor Donald Pleasence delivered an ode he composed himself-a reminder that in his plays Joe Orton had treated death as a grisly...
...poem compares both bird song and discarded antlers to the mysterious urge of the human mind to create. When Dugan saw the eerie anguish with which Shahn had endowed his subject, he went back to reread his poem. Shahn liked the watercolor so much that he redid it as a silk-screen print, making 50 copies. "I love doing public art," he explains. "Whenever a collector buys a painting of mine, he goes off and I never see it again...
...staff of songwriters and producers, led by the gifted team of Brian and Eddie Holland and Lament Dozier (Stop in the Name of Love, Baby Love). Where many recording companies market disks put together by outside producers, Motown carefully directs every session, with Gordy listening to each song before it is released and sometimes demanding a dozen or more retakes...
Under that layer is the work of an attractively gifted singer, her husky, throbbing contralto giving off a languor that occasionally approaches drowsiness, her guitar unexceptional but sufficient. Though a newcomer to solo circles, Bobbie is clearly a pro. Her first song, composed at the age of seven, was picked out on the family's upright piano, and had to do with her English shepherd, Sergeant. Later came studies at the Los Angeles Conservatory and U.C.L.A., but not for long. Since the age of 17, Bobbie has supported herself in assorted musical jobs, working...