Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opposite the supermarket. Speaking rapidly and easily in Spanish, he explained that DeMoulas was making lots of money on the Puerto Ricans in the neighborhood, but that there were no Puerto Ricans employed in the store, at least not in the front counters. Munoz, a disarmingly affable Mexican-American, spoke enthusiastically about the pressure the Puerto Ricans could bring against DeMoulas, urging them to help their fellow Spanish-speaking Americans who were suffering, 3000 miles away, just so that DeMoulas could make a few extra dollars. If the Puerto Ricans would all shop at the First National Supermarket...
...running mate. At Miami Beach, he effusively praised the Maryland Governor's "courage, character and intellect." Yet it was transparent that Agnew was chosen in large part because he was acceptable to South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and others in the party's Southern wing. Nixon spoke earnesty of Agnew's campaigning talents and called him "a statesman" who was amply qualified to take over as President...
Both he and Clapton spoke highly of The Band ("Music from Big Pink"). Baker said "The reason they are so loose is 'cause they've been just sitting around digging themselves for so long, not performing all the time like us. You know...the music you play is like the life you live...
Bruce also spoke of a new record he had just finished cutting called "Thing We Like." All the selections on it are compositions of his written over the last five years. Bruce plays string bass. The other players are relatively unknown. "The whole album is serialized improvisation. I've written all the tops and bottoms and provided serialized rhythms and pitches for the others to improvise upon." Influences of Schoenberg? "No, probably more Webern than anyone else, especially since many of the cuts are so short. One is fifty seconds long. Webern, man, he was too much! Years ahead...
...inadequately acted by teen-agers who plainly considered themselves better than the people they were portraying. Brooke Bundy, the pretty blonde in Young Runaways, appears to have too many teeth, and Leigh Taylor-Young, the pretty blonde in I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, learnt her eight lines and spoke them with something approaching conviction...