Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Haskell, who doubled as choreographer this year. Robert Peabody as Flo Gently, who incidentally comes off with the best all-around performance, does this difficult drunken-dance routine in "High Steppin' Lady," and later, with Preston Folded (Mark Kiely), they dance up a quiet little storm in the "Cold Turkey Trot" (one of the funniest numbers in the show...
...change our underwear every day of the week." One of the real problems with the lyrics though, is that you can't hear them. Only Robert Peabody can project his voice, which helps make for a bit of the ironic humor when he descends several octaves in "The Cold Turkey Trot...
Wilson, whose task force on core curriculum may generate the most controversial proposals, believes that Rosovsky's filtering system simply recognizes the largest problem of the educational review--carving proposals that the Faculty "will support enthusiastically and put time into." If Rosovsky had sent proposals to the Faculty "cold turkey," Wilson says, the dean would have risked the fate of the Doty committee, which reviewed undergraduate education in the '60s--with little lasting success...
...years later he fused them to make a series of aural reminiscences of his boyhood holidays in Danbury, Conn. Firecrackers explode, a village band escorts the parade to the cemetery to decorate graves, fancy fiddling and a twanging Jew's-harp reverberate through a winter barn dance. Turkey in the Straw, Columbia the Gem of the Ocean, Camptown Races-Ives borrowed quotes from the sound track of his youth. Beneath this patriotic gloss, his own thorny rhythms and free-form counterpoint combine to create music that remains imaginatively American...
Hunter Thompson, at his Colorado ranch, sipped Wild Turkey and predicted more random violence for the seventies. On one level, Thompson said, we're totally doomed--"but I think there's a perversity in people that I kind of like and have great faith in." Salisbury must have listened patiently and seriously. He writes...