Word: teethe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brand of blues: "They ain't no more of our kids comin' up. They been havin' too good a time." Jimi Hendrix, whose recording this is, learned guitar from Muddy Waters records, but Muddy never taught him to pluck the strings with his teeth or elbows. Wild as his act is onstage, Hendrix on this LP sings lyrics that are at times as delicate as Donovan's, and his blues are just one stripe in a rainbow of euphonious effects...
...purity of his madness" -cloaks him in an impervious aura of innocence. Blithely he goes on communing with his windup Victrola and 400 old recordings, and indulging such eccentricities as taking "a big shower" for 90 minutes each day, plus several "little showers after nature calls," and brushing his teeth six times a day (three times with toothpaste, three with papaya powder...
...bereaved merge forces, causing the predictable problems: lineups for the bathroom, family jealousies, identity crises when her kids have to change their last names to match their new stepfather's. Just as predictably, in the final footage the frowns turn into smiles that collectively display something like 500 teeth...
Today all of Eastern Europe is seething. The primary battleground are those of art and letters, but once the initial breach is made on that front there is no holding back--for culture is as related to the political process as teeth are to eating...
...cops are coming. One-hundred-seventy-three people jump out the window. (I don't jump because I've been reading Lord Jim.) That leaves 27 of us sitting on the floor, waiting to be arrested. In stroll an inspector and two cops. We link arms and grit our teeth. After about five minutes of gritting our teeth it downs on us that the cops aren't doing anything. We relax a little and they tell us they have neither the desire nor the orders to arrest us. In answer to a question they say they haven't got MACE...