Word: taj
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assignment was the East Pakistan cyclone and tidal wave. To much of the world, it was Burrows' color pictures that finally translated the enormity of that disaster into reality. For as good as he was with action pictures, Burrows was a master of mood; his pictures of the Taj Mahal and Cambodia's Angkor temples are classics...
Died. Colonel George J. McNally, 64, chief of the White House communications system from 1946 to 1965, who kept four Presidents in constant touch with Washington, no matter where in the world they happened to be-even if that meant installing a telephone in the Taj Mahal, as he did when Eisenhower visited in 1959; of a heart attack; in Bethesda...
Laughter is Lisagor's calling card. He has stepped on Khrushchev's foot, fallen asleep in the Taj Mahal and walked head-on into a lamp post (with bloody consequences) while recording the words of Lyndon Johnson...
...song as Hurt's. His streamlining of Leadbelly's "Take Your Hands Off Her" recalls the outrages the Stones committed on the Reverend Robert Wilkins's "Prodigal Son." He shouldn't have tried to update it; Leadbelly's version has the unity, the weight, the intractability of bedrock. Whereas Taj's version of "Good Mornning, Little School Girl" is more assured, more aware of the song's traditional bases, than the Grateful Dead's. He and his backup men are subtler, funnier, and stronger because they don't try so hard every instant. Taj has taken the song back...
When I was younger and wiser I used to fall alseep listening to my brother play country songs on his Stella. I know "Stacker Lee" and "Prodigal Son" the way Hurt and Wilkins played them; they're part of my feelings about structure and right order. Taj doesn't have to copy them to evoke these feelings. His own new songs can bring an audience back into that true structure, that exploratory engagement with their material...