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Word: uptown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main thing we've learned," says Borah. ' is not to believe automatically that the so-called experts know what they're talking about." Their latest target: a proposed Mississippi River bridge that they contend would dump an impossible traffic load onto the city's placid uptown streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: The New American Samaritans | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

...public, corruption disappears." BEING 75: "One of the nice things is that you don't have to go out so much. You can be very close to composers like Beethoven and Mozart and Bach, Haydn and Schumann, but that doesn't mean you have to run uptown all the time to hear them played. They're in the mind, like your grandmother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Virgilicm Knack | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

...Beatles were still relative unknowns playing stale-smelling dives in Liverpool, and Bob Dylan was staring hopefully into the spotlights at Greenwich Village folk clubs. The vogue back in 1960 was something known as "uptown rhythm and blues"-the first attempt to make R. and B. more palatable to the white audience. Uptown R. and B, was so named not because any downtown brand existed, but because in the offices of what had once been New York's Tin Pan Alley, some of the best young white producers and writers were turning out new song material for all-black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: King as Queen? | 7/12/1971 | See Source »

...wrote fancier uptown R. and B. than a young Jewish girl from Brooklyn named Carole King. Fast approaching 20, she and her first husband, a lyricist named Gerry Goffin, caught on early with songs like the Shirelles' Will You Love Me Tomorrow (1961) and the Drifters' Up on the Roof (1963). Masters at making their point quickly, their lyrics were predominantly simple, sentimental statements about love and loneliness, their melodies ingeniously brief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: King as Queen? | 7/12/1971 | See Source »

...world. Artists, fed up with seeing their work presented, if at all, as a luxury item at 50% commission on Madison Avenue, were talking of short-circuiting the dealer system entirely and selling work out of their own lofts. Meanwhile, the prodigious overhead of running an uptown exhibition space made it economically difficult for dealers to show new or unfamiliar art in the fading years of the '60s boom. Opening a branch in SoHo became a necessary gamble. Paula Cooper, the first gallery owner to try it, was watched and eventually followed by Establishment figures like Leo Castelli, Richard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Last Studios | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

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