Word: velvets
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...self-proclaimed king of jelly bean art, a title no one is likely to contest. In past political times, the "jelly bean impressionism" of Peter Rocha, 43, might well have received the critical reception accorded oils of bullfighters on black velvet or children with big watery eyes. But with a prime consumer of jelly beans in the White House, Rocha hopes that his art will catch the public's fancy. Rocha attests to using Jelly Bellys, the President's favorite, because "they are the only brand with a full color spectrum." And he has at last found...
...music. At Max's, Bruce Springsteen once opened for Bob Marley, the New York Dolls got their start, and a plethora of unknowns enjoyed brief moments of fame, But above all, the Village hangout will be remembered by veterans of the 60s as the birthplace of Lou Reed's Velvet Underground, perhaps the most influential group to ever emerge form New York City...
...Velvet Underground never garnered a large popular following. Its music was too intense, too frightening, too different. In 1967, while the Beatles were singing that "all you need is love" and making veiled metaphorical references to be burgeoning drug culture, Reed, the Underground's songwriter, graphically described the joys and horrors of narcotics, life on the streets, and, ten years before the punks, the general decay of society. The music was fresh--an amalgam of raw, sometimes un-melodic guitar solos and John Cale's imaginative violin in tunes so unorthodox they assaulted listeners. Countless punk and new wave bands...
...figure out "The Heroine," a bare, haunting song that features only a guitar and Reed's voice. At first, it seems a tale of adventure on the high seas that sports one hitch: the hero is a woman. But the cut takes on added significance when one remembers the Velvet Underground sang "Heroin," a violently direct song about drugs. All at once, the drug imagery emerges...
Gold carpeting was hastily installed in the courtroom, and high-backed red velvet chairs were provided for the defendants, lawyers and judges. It was a suit able setting for a momentous trial. In the dock were 32 top-ranking officers and one civilian accused of trying to overthrow the Spanish government by forcibly taking over the Cortes (parliament). In a sense, the entire military is on trial - and so is Spain's fledgling democracy...