Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scant resemblance to the pastime of the country-club set. The scene is Detroit's Palmer Park Municipal Golf Course, and among its players are some of the city's best-and best-known-black golfers. The aim is action, bankrolls are at the ready, and the style is straight soul. Indeed, to play Palmer Park is to take a lesson in lively ethnic semantics...
...throw or put the shot," he says of his new style. "I spring that thing out of there. I use my whole body, my total being." Too often, the force Oldfield generates in his spin whirls him out of the circle, disqualifying him on approximately half of his allotted attempts. "I feel confined in that circle," he says. "I have to learn not to be intimidated by it." Perhaps, but it is Oldfield himself who is the big intimidator on the I.T.A. tour. "On my baddest days," he says, "I'm better than anyone else...
Died. James Laver, 76, British sartorial scholar whose encyclopedic knowledge of historic costume and contemporary fashion earned his books and articles a wide following; in a fire in his London apartment. Laver's witty analyses of the relationship of style to social trends sometimes led to some imaginative conclusions. "The disappearance of corsets," he once wrote, "is always accompanied by two related phenomena-promiscuity and an inflated currency. No corsets, bad money and general moral laxity...
...homosexual and whose mother sought vicarious recognition in her child star. For Dahl and Kehoe The Wizard of Oz is cinéma à clef; the Dorothy who sang Over the Rainbow was the actress herself. "Frances never stopped trying to get home," they burble in a style that Rona Barrett might envy. Young Judy covers only the childhood of Garland's 47-year-long life and is only about one-fourth as egregious as Anne Edwards' Judy Garland (Simon & Schuster; $9.95). Author Edwards, an English film scenarist, belongs to the Ptolemaic school of cinema biography. In this...
...been described as an "angelic cowgirl." At times the phrase fits. Dressed in fringed shirt, jeans and high boots, working over a Merle Haggard favorite like Bottle Let Me Down, she can produce a brassy twang. But Emmylou Harris' emotional singing style owes more to melancholy Appalachian bluegrass than to western swing. Despite its range, her voice is most telling because of its feathery delicacy, an almost tentative dying fall capable of stirring deep emotions. "I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham," this evocative voice promises in her best song so far. "I would hold...