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THOMAS HART BENTON by Matthew Baigell. 278 pages. Abrams. $40. In a painting career that has already spanned more than 50 years, Thomas Hart Benton acts as a kind of troubadour of American painting. His work, well represented in this book, ranges over all regions and periods, from Hollywood sets to Southeastern tobacco farms, from battles between Indians and settlers to World War II. Throughout, in a distinctive style, dynamic, sinuous but often lumpishly awkward, he affectionately illustrates the rhythm, energy and drama of American life...
...strings to produce a strong, lowdown sound. A few decades ago it was the sound of a whole genus of American music that might be called backroads blues. Today its best exponent is Ry Cooder, a guitarist and singer of wry wit and concentrated energy who has extended the troubadour tradition of Woody Guthrie and fashioned a distinctive personality for himself from the shards of the American musical past...
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...John's Hollywood apartment when a neighbor reported female screams coming from it. The fuzz departed, however, when told that Lennon and date were simply enjoying a Mr. and Mrs. Last week Lennon chalked up another demerit. He was bounced from Los Angeles' most fashionable nightclub, the Troubadour, for ribald heckling of the Smothers Brothers. On the way out with his secretary May Pang, Lennon threw a right at Freelance Photographer Brenda Mary Perkins, who filed a complaint with the police. Lennon is uncharacteristically mum on the subject. Taking his lawyer's advice, he said: "No comment...
...void left by the Harlows and Gables. Any number of the pop world's scores of superstars could serve to illustrate the process. Four who exemplify its various aspects as vividly as any are Balladeer Carole King, Hard-Rocker Ian Anderson, Pop-Jazz Songstress Roberta Flack and Fey Troubadour Harry Nilsson. Not exactly household names, they nevertheless enjoy more status with the young than a Newman or a Taylor. They are more lavishly remunerated than, say, Redford or Mac-Graw. Indeed, everything about the music industry of the '70s is reminiscent of Hollywood in the '30s and '40s: moguls, superstars...