Word: troubadours
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been achangin', just as he said they would 23 years ago. This summer the Woodstock generation met the yuppie generation, as people who grew up with Bob Dylan and those barely out of their teens crowded into arenas, stadiums and concert halls across the country for the raspy-voiced troubadour's True Confessions show. By the time the tour ended last week, an estimated 1 million people had heard him and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers perform nearly a quarter-century of Dylan's songs, from the vintage Masters of War through the rock anthem Like a Rolling Stone. Now fans...
Laurie Colwin is a writer in love with writing about love. After six books, including her delicate little lyric of a novel, Happy All the Time, she remains as exclusive to her theme as a troubadour and as mordant as a jester...
...Holyoke Center once a week and along Brattle the rest of the time. Sporting long hair and often a bandanna, as well, he enjoys joining other musicians and singing with them. With no permanent home and traveling throughout the country, O'Brien likes to think of himself as a troubadour...
ANOTHER MAJOR disappointment also mars the performance. At the start of the show, a pink-clad troubadour emerges from a fanfare and a see of light. He holds up a scroll-like banner, announcing the name of the next skit. The house lights blacken, and seconds later Marceau, dressed in his far less elaborate white costume, poses in readiness on the exact spot that the troubadour held. How does he make this miraculous switcheroo? The audience finds out at intermission, when the Marceau look-alike troubadour comes out to take a bow with his boss...
FRASER'S ENGAGING style succeeds where a conventional historian's might be tedious. She is a troubadour who effortlessly recounts a story she has exhaustively researched, and documented. The Weaker Vessel is a welcome addition to the slowly growing field of women's studies. It is also a warning that, as in the England of Elizabeth I, "it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again." This statement is made parenthetically, but it stands as the central motif of the book. As in 17th-century England, there are more...