Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the comedy on this record is confined to little asides slipped into or between songs. Of course, the supposed saga of the Blues Brothers' road to the top, as told on the back cover, and the appearance and stage act of the band are intended to amuse. Some of the songs are in a light vein, as well. But Belushi and Aykroyd did not record Briefcase Full of Blues as a comedy album. Belushi is clearly out to prove that he is a singer, not just a comedian who sings a little. His performances here, along with...
...legends, so no one really knows how young Paul William Bryant fared against that carny bear in Fordyce, Ark. Some say he lasted the $5 limit, at a dollar per minute, and collected his money; others insist that the scrawny old beast tossed the local boy off the stage of the Lyric Theater in short order. Bryant claims he has the scars to prove he was there, but the only thing that really matters is that the episode gave the boy a nickname to grow into-Bear. A perfect name for 50 years of football, a name to match...
...voluntary wage-price restraints, the 1979 bargaining calendar looked rugged. Next year, contracts covering 3.7 million workers expire, compared with roughly 2 million in 1978. In an era when industry is struggling to hold down costs and union members have seen inflation eating up their wage gains, the stage is set for confrontation. Says John Gentry, labor relations adviser to Alfred Kahn, the nation's top inflation fighter: "Adding the guidelines to that lineup can only make bargaining more difficult...
...workers agree to a moderate contract, the Teamsters may follow, and then other unions. But, says one Administration official, "if OCAW busts the guidelines, then we will lose the [Teamsters'] master freight agreement, and if we lose that we can forget about the whole guidelines program." At this stage, no one can tell which way the dominoes will fall...
Colette embarked on a career as a music-hall mime in order to support her self and acquired an aristocratic lover, the former Marquise de Belboeuf, a transvestite who "dressed in a mechanic's over-alls." Later on, Colette took to the legitimate stage, wrote screenplays, founded a line of cosmetics and managed a career in journalism as well. A versatile reporter, she produced features and music reviews and even covered a few notorious crimes. "She brought to courtrooms," Chronicler Robert Phelps observes, "the same unsentimental yet empathic watchfulness which she brought to plants, animals, weather, lovers...