Word: tunings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their perceptions with pot and later with more mind-bending hallucinogens. LSD's hallucinogenic qualities were discovered by a chemist who accidentally swallowed a dose in 1943. By the early '60s, an obscure Harvard lecturer named Timothy Leary began feeding his students LSD and advising them to "turn on, tune in, drop out." Fired by Harvard, he promptly became a counterculture deity...
There's already a clamor to climb aboard. Waylon Jennings, who can still hang tough and sing true, recorded an Earle tune called The Devil's Right Hand on his new album, Will the Wolf Survive. At a recent date in a tony Chicago club, an upscale crowd got joyously behind the heavy beat and the Duane Eddy- style guitar rumble of Earle's band, even as they paid respectful attention to such back-against-the-wall Earle lyrics as "I hit the beer joints every Friday night/ Spend a little money lookin' for a fight/ It don't matter...
...then John Denver's Annie's Song, which a Galway recording has popularized, and finally Amazing Grace. Why not a classical program? Says Galway: "What's the first thing you'd want to hear in the morning? Not some flute study. I thought they'd rather hear a folk tune...
...business were loaded into the bill that it became a monstrosity. To take the worst example, real estate profited so enormously that a 1983 Treasury study concluded that the industry as a whole not only was paying no tax but was actually being subsidized by Washington to the tune of $15 billion a year...
...paintings are the same. Helga is another Christina in another world, this time more in tune with the essential earth than before, possibly a reflection of a more sagacious and older Wyeth's point of view. With age comes wisdom but also occasionally paranoia. Perhaps 69-year-old Wyeth felt that if he never said a word about the paintings while he was still alive, they would be misunderstood. Perhaps our castigation of the artist for his mute revelation is too harsh and premature. The calm and gentleness of his hidden secrets excuses almost anything...