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...headache for some biofeedback experimenters because of the placebo effect - a certain number of ailments vanish, not as a result of biofeedback but simply because the patient has faith in the method. Says Miller: "Many of these headaches would have disappeared if the patients were treated with extract of watermelon...
...honorary doctorate.) Back in Chicago, Hancock lived with his parents and played as many gigs as he could. Then in 1960 he hooked up with the visiting Donald Byrd and went to New York with him. In 1963 Hancock made his first success as a composer with Watermelon Man. Byrd eventually took Hancock around to play some ballads for Miles Davis. Recalls Hancock: "We didn't meet again until much later, when he telephoned to say he needed a piano player. He said, 'I want to hear you play,' and dropped the phone into the cradle. Click...
...flirting with the black revolutionary movement, the eldest girl suddenly getting pregnant at age 15. And so on. But then what can you expect of a movie about blacks in which the main love scene is preceded by a meal of fried chicken? Thank heavens they did not have watermelon for dessert, but that is about the only cliché of black life the film has avoided. Richard Schickel
While other songwriters are heading for country creeks and watermelon vines, Springsteen celebrates urban lowlife. His songs are ambitious mini-operas populated by punk saints and Go-Kart Mozarts in scenarios laced with schmalz and violence. His territory: the streets of Harlem, tenements, the funky world of the boardwalk's pinball way with its dusty arcades and machines. Bursting with words, images rush along in cinematic streams of consciousness...
...stumped indefatigably through the state's heavily Democratic back country. To meet expenses, he passed the hat at bean dinners and watermelon feasts, borrowed from banks, and so overstrained his credit that wags described his campaign as the first ever to be financed on a Diners' Club card. At a small fund-raising event in Tulsa, Hall had to leave the restaurant, race to a friend's house and borrow enough money to cover the dinner bill. But it all paid off on election day, when Hall won by 2,181 votes...