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...HONKY-TONK STATESMEN...
...others in a frazzle of twists, hanging from a string and responsive to the lightest touch of a finger or breath of air. Most of them were portraits--some of fellow artists (Miro, the composer Edgard Varese), others of show-biz celebrities like Josephine Baker or the great honky-tonk comedian Jimmy Durante, whose famed nose, translated into wire profile, becomes a fearsome proboscis. They were witty, vital (the faint quivering of the wire from room vibration gave them an odd subliminal life) and completely without pretension. They were also, clearly, sculpture and not toys. Yet they would hardly...
...settlements, historians have found fragments resembling banjos, harmonicas, large gold-plated belt buckles and, most amazingly, several pages of an early Hee-Haw script written on parchment. This startling evidence shows that the Puritans, sober settlers of Boston and founders of Harvard, may have had some contact with honky-tonk...
...drive home this point, they opened the concert with "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," one of their earliest and best known singles. They proceeded to mix and match such established favorites as "It's Only Rock and Roll," "Start Me Up," "Let's Spend the Night Together," "Honky Tonk Women," "Star, Star" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want," with songs from their new album Bridges to Babylon, including "Flip the Switch," Anybody Seen My Baby" and "Out of Control." The set list had a remarkable flow to it, facilitated by the rock solid and almost unwavering...
Meader wasn't totally washed out of show business: today he sings and plays honky-tonk piano in small nightclubs in Maine. But it is with Meader and more recent news events in mind that we offer similar sympathy to the producers of Diana & Me, a romantic film comedy about a woman who is obsessed with the Princess of Wales. In her effort to meet Diana, the heroine hooks up with and eventually falls for a paparazzo who is stalking Diana. This lighthearted Australian production finished shooting only recently, not long before the paparazzi-related automobile accident that has riveted...