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...called "Tie One On." Designer Betsey Johnson, who accepted fashion's Coty Award last year dressed in black tie and dinner jacket, offers the menswear look for spring in a strictly individual version: the "Our Gang" comedy style, which is considerably more funky and less tailored than the uptown interpretation. And last week the women's page of London's Daily Mirror ran a feature instructing women in a new talent they will need: the art of tying a four-in-hand knot...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...