Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...headlines on every sports page in the country. Earlier in the year he had hit successfully in 20 straight games until he blew it on national TV--these are the kind of things that win All-Star berths in the national balloting. Despite ardent attempts by Boston fans to stuff ballots. Lynn lost out to the likes of Bonds. Rudi ad Reggie Jackson. Still he will play tonight in Milwaukee, chosen by manager as an early substitute. All-Star or no, he's Rookie of the Year baring a major nervous breakdown, and Most Valuable Player...
...Duke Ellington Orchestra without the Duke? O.K. so you can't have everything. But Mercer Ellington, the Duke's son, is making a gallant attempt to recreate some of his father's stuff and from what I have heard, he is doing a good job of it. Check them out for $3 and $4 tonight at Sanders Theatre...
Actually, Woddy Allen's formula is more sophisticated than just that. He generally takes some basic slapstick and Marx Brothers stuff, slathers it with the savoir-faire of the horny ethnic loser, and hurls the whole concoction into an unlikely context, usually the heroic fantasy world of the shlemeil. What he does is magnify the possibilities of the social banana peel. A Jewish herd blowing a date in the Bronx is one thing, but a Jewish herd posing as a Cuban dictator in bed with a sultry revolutionary who tells him he looks a lot like a Jewish herd...
...critics may dismiss it with the contemptuous catch phrase "Middle of the road." Elton counters by calling his stuff "ultramelodic pop" and goes right on churning it out at a profligate pace. As for Taupin, a Lincolnshire loner whose father was a chicken farmer and whose hobby is collecting American handguns, his way with words exactly matches Elton's prevailing musical mood. "We never want to write songs that tell an audience what to do," says Taupin. "We don't know enough about the world to preach to people. We take ourselves seriously, but the music...
Pretty standard stuff for the man who stands near the head of the richest class of entertainers the world has ever known. But there are some things that are different about Elton John. For one thing, he will not join the exodus of rock stars who are leaving Britain to escape stiff new tax laws. "I can't imagine going to live in Geneva," he says. "There is nothing there but people who've gone to Geneva." He would rather spend time worrying about his new record label, Rocket, which gives its artists much larger than standard royalties...