Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hours of Electric Dead. Bill Kreutzmann (drums), Phil Lesh (bass), Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir (acoustic guitars and vocals) would play "country Dead" for an hour. The songs were those later to comprise Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, along with other country and spiritual tunes. When they sang "Swing Low Sweet Chariot," a little fellow, not much more than five feet tall, with long blond hair and a blond van dyke, sang bass...
...with Velásquez and Rubens." Demands Sir Roland Penrose: "What do people expect of a modern painter? Whenever painting of the image is considered, Picasso is of vital importance. His influence is not as strong as it was 20 years ago. But times and influences change. His will swing back...
There is little doubt about the direction of the swing today. Forty years ago, Picasso was a presence that every living artist had to cope with. His Promethean spirit was written into the idea of modernism itself. Not now. The only men of Picasso's generation whose work still exerts pressure on modern painting are Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). To artists nurtured on Duchampian irony, the very idea of the culture-hero, which Picasso embodies, is suspect. The last 15 years have seen a reaction against the cult of expressive personality...
When the family's 1958 Ford began wheezing its last, Mrs. Virginia Fobair of Tampa, Fla., tried first to sell it, then to give it away. Hemmed in by legalisms, she finally donated it to an elementary-school carnival where, for only a dime, customers could swing a hammer at Mrs. Fobair's "frustration car." Mrs. Evelyn Grubb of Colonial Heights, Va., applied twice for a BankAmericard; both times the company replied that her husband's signature was required on the application. Mrs. Phyllis Kline and her husband, also of Tampa, owned an interest in a nearby...
...yarder, and finished the day with a staggering 284 yards and eight receptions. Clune was repeatedly wide open, catching his last touch-down pass in a completely open field after Harvard's shell-shocked defensive backs had been sucked in by what appeared to be a simple swing pass to the halfback...