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Although they're not blood relations, Nicolette Larson, who insists on calling herself Nicolette, and Peter Tosh, whose friends call him Peter, will be at the Paradise in close succession later this month. Nicolette has a big hit now (with a little-known dedication to Harvey C. Mansfield '53) called "It's Gonna Take A Lot of Gov (For Me to Get an A)" and Peter Tosh recently put out a very good album, "Bush Doctor...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Beyond the Potato | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...frogged coat and sword, he was honored by budding Novelist Fanny Burney, who praised him as a "lyon of lyons." Sir Joshua Reynolds painted a portrait of him in a turban. He was even introduced to King George, whose name he mispronounced as he greeted him: "How do, King Tosh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Return to Tahiti | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

...subtly making fun of Charlotte or whether he is showing her as the victim of the sexuality that assails her from billboards, magazines, phonograph records, and even overheard conversations. Again, the philosophical discourses that have always marked Godard's films have all been enigmatic; though filled with tosh, they were strategically timed and lovingly staged, and one wondered to what extent they echoed the director's thought...

Author: By Martin S. Levine, | Title: The Married Woman | 10/28/1965 | See Source »

...There is a current and quite pre-posterous impression that Nathan's hold on the intellectual booberle is a sensual one. He is supposed to titillate their nerve centers, causing them to jump. More palpaple tosh than this has not been formed a part of the public superstition since the Sermon on the Mount...I confidently predict that in a hundred years he will be remembered solely for his cravats...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: The Useless Art: A Refined Sampling | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...Harold, a humorless but kindly culture-vulture, they would much sooner make a sexual slip than be caught uttering a cliche. Bayard works full time at being a snob and composer. His sister Cally paints, keeps hopping into beds, and wonders if true love will always pass her by. Tosh is a poet who has just been ditched by a beautiful girl who is reasonably sure that it is possible to live by bread alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Sep. 29, 1958 | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

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