Word: songster
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...role of Fredrik Egerman in A Little Night Music." So, decked out in a tux that probably cost less than one of Wayne Newton's cuff links, Kahn valiantly warbled eleven tunes, mostly Gershwin and Cole Porter. Just to prove that he hasn't abandoned politics, the songster topped his 40-minute performance with a Night Music number that he said he wanted to dedicate to the Reagan Administration: Send in the Clowns. -By E. Graydon Carter
...waved a pistol at blacks who tried to desegregate his Atlanta restaurant told a few corny jokes, played the harmonica and belted out Casey Jones and Dixie in a gravelly baritone. The crowd loved it. One reason, perhaps, was that Maddox's fellow songster and guitar accompanist was Bobby Lee Fears, a black ex-convict. Fears worked as a busboy and dishwasher for Maddox until his boss's restaurant went under. The duo's first big-time booking will be an appearance on NBC's series of Laugh-In specials, scheduled to begin late this year...
...apparent purpose of the new crackdown is to so intimidate the country's intellectuals that they will stop the embarrassing practice of criticizing Party Boss Erich Honecker's regime from inside East Germany. A case in point is Balladeer Wolf Biermann, 40, a poet and songster who regards himself as a dedicated Communist and actually emigrated from West Germany to East Germany in 1953 because he wanted to live in a Communist-run state. Since then he has become an outspoken critic of what he regards as East Berlin's distortion of Marxism, and accuses the East...
Along Highways 41 and 287 to the mouth of Granite Creek there was a sprinkling of birds-no flocks-mostly blackbirds, but not a single small songster. I suppose if I had walked far enough into these grass- and sage-covered grounds, I would have found some, but always before (four years ago), they fairly swarmed here at the edge-so why go farther...
...short-lived and incendiary artistic magazine, Blast. This partial autobiography, written in 1937 and now reissued, proves that Lewis could give as good as he got. His book bristles on almost every page with his endless resources for insult. Ezra Pound, after a first impression, was "a cowboy songster"; T. S. Eliot was "a Prufrock who would 'dare' all right 'to eat a peach'-provided he was quite sure that he possessed the correct European table-technique for that ticklish operation...