Word: webbe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beginning. Webb's early success is all the more striking because he was so recently at rock bottom, emotionally as well as economically. The son of a Baptist minister, he was raised in Oklahoma and Texas, started music studies at California's San Bernardino Valley College in 1966. Midway in his second semester, dispirited by his mother's death and struggling to sort out his life, Webb dropped out. He had learned the piano and organ well enough to play in his father's church at age eleven and had started composing...
Other songwriters besides Jim Webb have reeled off a string of hit records, including two that won Grammy awards in the same year. Others have been asked to compose-and sometimes arrange and conduct-for such top singers as Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin and Glen Campbell. Others have formed their own publishing and production firms and boosted their annual income to $350,000. But for the others, such achievement has usually filled out a lifetime. Jim Webb has done it all in 18 months. Now one of the hot test talents in pop music...
...iconic images which crowd the film: the old King's breath freezing in the chill sunlight of his vast hall, Hotspur's (Norman Rodway) peripatetic motion caught by a camera tracking in tight close-up, the gross Falstaff beside the cruelly emaciated Justice Shallow (Alan Webb), Doll Tearsheet (Jeanne Moreau) demonstrating how a tender and accomplished whore might satisfy an impossibly fat old patron. The Battle of Shrewsbury is simply the finest, truest, ugliest war footage ever shot and edited for a dramatic movie. Welles fills Falstaff with motifs to create visual unities: the vast castle wall which dominates shot...
...pair of rare flukes-a leak in a secondary fuel line and crossed cut-off signal wires that shut down the wrong rocket engine. The Russians have no moon rocket to compare with the Saturn 5, which is capable of 7,500,000 Ibs. of thrust. NASA Administrator James Webb believes they will soon test a moon booster with a 10,000,000-lb. thrust capacity. With the first manned Apollo orbit scheduled for August and a Saturn 5-powered orbital mission tentatively set for November, NASA estimates that the U.S. still has a half-year lead...
RICHARD WRIGHT, by Constance Webb. Using previously unpublished material. Miss Webb, a close friend of the late Negro novelist, tracks Wright's career from poverty in Mississippi to fame and prestige in Paris...