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...Aspen Mountain, the classy lodges and chic crowds. Its glittery, fast-lane image later included pricy real estate and such open cocaine use that it acquired the nickname "Toot City." Artists, ski bums and a coterie of rich and famous, including Actor Jack Nicholson and Troubadour John Denver, settled in what Denver dubbed "the sweet Rocky Mountain paradise." Now, as the ski craze cools and recession-fueled competition among Western resorts increases, hard times have intruded on paradise...
DIED. Mildred Dilling, 88, virtuoso and zestful champion of the harp, who helped to popularize solo recitals on the instrument; in New York City. Casting herself as a wandering troubadour, Dilling toured constantly, playing seven times at the White House and once giving 17 concerts in London during a three-week period. She carefully cultivated calluses on her fingers and at times kept 65 harps in her Manhattan apartment. Dilling seasoned her recitals with spirited lectures on the harp's history and anecdotes like the one about the stranger who pointed to a harp, said, "Lady, learn me that...
...that has made L'Amour's novels excep tional bestsellers. His popularity keeps growing because, in an epoch of prose experiments and self-conscious narrative, he has never forgotten to spin his yarn. "My books are meant to be read aloud," he says. "I'm a troubadour, a village taleteller. I'm the guy at the end of the bar or in the shadows of the campfire." In the past decade, he has become a kind of Woody Guthrie of fiction, a conservative populist who believes the myths he creates. And his audience rides with...
Would the idea of a national laureate savor too much of those Graustarkian palace uniforms that Richard Nixon once ordered to dress up the White House guards? Probably. But if Jimmy Carter had had a troubadour to sing his occasions, his Sir John might, for better or worse, have erupted in celebration last week...
...Carter's years have been a true return to Government by popular will, filtered through the mind and ear of this earnest troubadour of the town meetings and televised press conferences, therein lies a huge and unexpected irony. The people do not like their own political creation...