Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dwight's father Stanley was frequently away on military duty. When he was home, his son discovered there were really only a couple of things he could do to please dad. One was to accompany him to Watford, six miles away, to watch the local football (soccer) team's matches. The other was to play a little Chopin; he had started piano lessons at four. Chumship evaporated, however, when Reg tuned in pop music on the radio. His mother Sheila recalls a letter Stanley sent from overseas warning that Reg, then 16, must "get all this pop nonsense...
Even closer to him is, of all things, the Watford Football Club, which he and his father used to watch in the old days. Elton is now a director of the club, called the Hornets. They are mediocre at best, but Elton lives and dies with their fortunes. He practices with the club, he bawls out its members in the newspaper when they do especially poorly, gives them the royal box at his concerts to encourage them. He has staged benefit concerts for Watford in order to buy the team the new players it needs. A year ago, he gained...
...taxi from San Juan takes almost three hours to reach St. Vincent. As the islands slide by, embedded in their wrinkled sheet of sapphire, you run over your limited skills and lubberly sailing experience and watch your confidence begin to ebb. Bareboating is a cheap way to sail, but it is not for everyone-if only because a prospective skipper needs to show some experience before a charter firm will send him tacking off through the coral with $45,000 worth of boat under him. Anyone who knows the difference between windward and leeward but not between a boom vang...
...than a George and Ira Gershwin musical about upper-class bootlegging during Prohibition? Admittedly Oh, Kay! has a book co-authored by one of the enemy--P.G. Wodehouse--but the score should more than make up for it, with such all-American numbers as "Clap Yo' Hands," "Someone To Watch Over Me," "Maybe," and "Do, Do, Do." It was a smash hit in 1926. The Loeb's version is directed by Loeb's Wunderkind Josh Rubins '70, author of the well-received musical Suffragette! At the Loeb tonight through Saturday and July 7-12 at 8 p.m. except Saturday...
Bonnie and Clyde. The first film of the Harvard holiday camp season comes under the auspices of "Summer School Flicks," which is a better title than "Music 2001," certainly, and the less said about "Laugh Riot II" the better. The Science Center is a sterile, nursery, school place to watch a movie, and they tend to bark orders out of loudspeakers about food, tobacco and such things, but the screen is pretty big. The choice of features is a great one, though, back from the good old days when Pauline Kael's proficiency and reputation as grande dame of film...