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...Houston, we're locked up," Scott radioed to ground controllers. "Wow!" exclaimed McDivitt after a tone signal confirmed that the two ships were firmly joined. "I haven't heard a sound that good for a long time...
...Wow. Or, as Johnny himself puts it: "How can it be?" The answer is partly that blues are big these days, partly that Johnny Winter is the swingingest, funkiest new white blues singer to come out of the South in years. His electric guitar crackles with a kind of voltage that can only come from the gut, not an AC outlet. His singing ranges from a harsh, staccato yell to a high soprano wail. Many of his songs are his own-improvised on the spot, or written down the night before. Like Leland, Mississippi Blues, which he sang...
...prerogatives. The cross-cutting (as in Hurry Sundown) makes no concessions to audience logic and proceeds solely on Preminger's sure and personal instincts. And at the end, when Preminger actually Stops the film and his voice on the soundtrack TELLS us that we WANT to see the credits--WOW!! Incredible potency...
FLASH! Elvis is back! Oh wow! Yank those beers out of the mother icebox. The man, the MAN, the whole cause of everything. He's on the tube, can you believe, singing in a torrent of sweat in a black leather suit--no, wait, it's a high-roll collar dealie, and can you dig his pants? Heartbreak Hotel? Raunchy as ever? Hound Dog? It's too good to be true! That quiver that makes girls moan from their stomachs made me shriek at the top of my lungs: "Elvis, Elvis, you son of a bitch, you are the KING...
...disappointed in you is, of course, an understatement. While I sat here singing all those other alma maters, learned in infancy, you sat there grinning and whooping it up without even trying. Wow, was I mad! Couldn't you have stayed off whatever you were on until after the program? Yale really showed you up, but I don't suppose you care in the least...