Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some teeny-boppers would consider his topics awfully untopical, there is always a tremendous old-fashioned poignancy in Hardin's roughhewn songs. And some of them are blessed with a surprising humanism: "Ev'ry moment means so much/ When your baby's skin is there to touch/ Every moment bringing more/ That's what mother and father are for." There are times, though, when Hardin's hesitant hoarseness does a disservice to his music; other folk singers, particularly Joan Baez, are more capable of illuminating the songs' best qualities and subduing their recurrent banality...
JANIS IAN: FOR ALL THE SEASONS OF YOUR MIND (Verve Forecast). All Miss Ian needs is a touch more of faith, hope and charity-especially charity. No one is more difficult to contend with than a condescending adolescent, and 16-year-old Ian is so highly talented that her condescension is all the harder to take. Yet her talent usually wins in the end. This album contains some of her most felicitous efforts since Society's Child. Her young, flutelike voice adds just the right hue of blues to the suicidal notes of Insanity Comes Quietly to the Structured...
...Dylan, there have been several times when I wished I could be Andy Warhol when I grew up. Not only did he make it big in New York's arty circles, but he got to use his name to do an exciting experimentation with every medium he could touch. Everything he does (exhibiting six huge self-portraits at Expo 67, or dying his hair silver, or even sending someone who looks like his twin to do a lecture tour for him) is designed to test our sensibilities, change our perspectives, put us on. Pop Art (one of Warhol's babies...
...have not cleaned any of the johns in Winthrop House, am in serious danger of losing that job. My father's drinking has increased, and my sister was just rejected by all the colleges to which she applied. I sure hope things get better. I'll be in touch. Yours most sincerely, (Your Name...
...Gramont sees it, the times were not so much ripe for revolution as overripe with monarchy. Louis XVI was so far out of touch with the changing political style that he did not even suspect a dangerous parallel when he saw one-the American Revolution. While Marie Antoinette gushed about "our good republicans, our good Americans," Louis, it is said, made a gift of a Sevres chamber pot with Benjamin Franklin's likeness on the base...