Word: stewart
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...bass playing is at times superb, and probably Ron Wood's; elsewhere it is merely workmanlike, and probably Bill Wyman's. Over the years the Stones have acquired a nonpareil corps of sidemen, and sax Bobby Keys, harmonica Sugar Blue, and Keyboards Nicky "Jamming with Edward" Hopkins and Ian Stewart perform with their customary elan. The production and mix are dazzling. Only the guitars are inadequate; if the rhythm guitar and short fills work as well as anyone's, the leads are, unfortunately, hopeless. Whether they are Keef's or Woodie's is irrelevant; neither one, apparently, can manage...
...splashing lavishly over everything; and they cheered in anticipation when the camera fastened on some woman's ass. I admit to somewhat similar behavior--on a smaller scale--at home in front of my television screen, enjoying a private relationship with the camera (I kid myself that, like James Stewart in Rear Window, I am unseen); but there's something frightening about seeing your own harmless perversions enthusiastically endorsed by hundreds of people. Except these people didn't seem to want to question their responses. They seemed like the leering, drooling maniacs in the asylum scene of Brian Depalma...
REAL VIOLENCE IS, for most of us, still hideous, threatening, mesmerizing. And when a cameraman caught the murder of newsman Bill Stewart in Nicaragua last summer, all the cinematic bloodletting in the world couldn't equal the impact of that hazy, distant shot of a rifle discharging into the prone body. It was a violation...
...Nine are jazzy bits of innocent syncopation. There is now a good deal of narrative and emotional weight on these tunes, which are graceful little paper boats never made for such heavy cargo. The book, which the program accurately calls "lead-ins and crossovers," is credited to Michael Stewart (Hello, Dolly!) and Mark Bramble (Barnum), a couple of pros who do well all that is required of them: get the tunes on and get 'em off with a couple of jokes...
DIED. George R. Stewart, 85, prolific novelist and scholar of literature, American history, forestry and meteorology who received acclaim for his "weather novels" Storm and Fire; in San Francisco. A professor of English for 38 years at the University of California at Berkeley, Stewart battled the regents over the "nonCommunist loyalty oath" required of faculty in 1950, and later documented the experience in The Year of the Oath. Also recognized as an authority on onomastics, the science of names, he noted in American Place-Names that Deathball Rock, Ore., commemorated "an unsuccessful attempt to make biscuits...