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...talking with many people who visited me backstage that this was only because most of them had been unfamiliar with the term. What they had not realized was that here in America they had seen some of the greatest pantomimists of the century--Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy...those superb artists who created in the silent movie era, without benefit of the spoken word, a whole world of human prototypes in humorous, pathetic, tragic or hilarious situations in life--with which their audiences identified themselves...
...conduct limited to Dartmouth. In late January, officials were forced to halt a contest between the Bruins and the Black Hawks because spectators were throwing bottles onto the ice. The fans were upset because their hero, Bobby Orr, was tripped at the blue line and no penalty was called. Stan Mikita, echoing Goodenow, expressed amazement at this outburst...
Rockefeller's influence is still felt in Exxon. He began selling overseas when the industry was still a handful of wells in Pennsylvania turning out a product that was refined mostly into kerosene burned in lamps (gasoline was then an unwanted byproduct). Early on, Stan dard Oil boasted that
Lindner's victory over Ashe came in the only serious match of the tournament. The other matches featured celebrities: Bill Cosby, Clarence Williams, and Richard Roundtree vs. Stan Smith, Gene Scott, and Ashe...
...byword was a consistent brilliance. Good moments flowed like good frames in a film: Corea's recreation of a grandfather clock's movement in "Children's song #1;" an integrated drum solo, drums laid over the bass line for the first time in my memory; Stan Clarke's bass solo in "Bass Folk Song," and all his work on acoustic bass. Clarke plays bass as an equal member, not as a supporter. He attacks a solo from the viewpoint of a lead instrument, rather than expanding techniques of support. And there was Bill Connors's nice classically acoustic intro...