Word: wop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...struggling under the side of the desk in the center of the stair, uttering his own brand of condescension: "apebreath, banana boy, wop, grease ball, pizzabrain, vegetable-peddler;" he was pulling all the plugs on a last ditch performance to maintain grace. And I was unable to respond, my own vicious and maligned thoughts were tripping over each other, filling my mouth with cotton candy, my head with the stuff of insanity...
...perceive the German danger and, as Fecher notes, "brushed off Nazi treatment of the Jews." His literary criticism was sometimes blind to contemporary talent: he thought Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was "full of pink hooey" and found no more sense in Faulkner than in "the wop boob, Dante." He never understood the scars of the Depression and compared the New Deal efforts of Franklin D. Roosevelt to those of "a snake-oil vendor at a village carnival...
Then there are the "Chesterfields," the black doo-wop group that teams up with frustrated song writer Laraine Newman (Carole King). The scene in which they meet and Newman reaches them her song captures the same special moment, the gel point of the music, which is really quite effective. Another such moment occurs when the 12-year-old leader of the Buddy Holly Fan Club sits with Freed and starts to cry as he recalls the news of Holly's death...
...Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, all caught up in a story line of the chorus dancer who has to fill in for the star at the out-of-town premier but sorry--not time for stories here, just singing and dancing, including "42nd Street" and "Shuffle Off to Buffalo." Doo-wop-a-wop. I love this musical. See you there--on the avenue I'm takin' you too, 42nd Street...
...this volume clear of ideology and excess. Most of the 26 contributors have written straightforward, informative and entertaining articles on the areas of their own special interest or expertise. The subjects include discussions of singers, songwriters and well-known studios, covering the range from Rhythm and Gospel, Rockabilly, Doo-Wop, Motown, the British Invasion, the Sounds of Memphis, Philadelphia, San Francisco and more. Up through the closing chapter which traces "the shape of the seventies," not a single important event in the history of rock has been overlooked or left out. When the occasional venture into hyperbole does arise...