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...mean to take anything away from that Harvard team. They got a really good guy in that little Gatto fellow. He's a real sparkplug. And that defense: wow, from what I've seen in the films they know how to play football. But let's get back...
...success Italian youths had enjoyed in upstaging the Venice Biennale, threatened to disrupt the Documenta. Shipments from France were delayed by strikes, and artists labored through the night before the opening, installing exhibits. Still, the show began on time for a three-month run-and it was like wow...
...more recent successes such as Paper Cup and Wichita Lineman-reveal Webb's gift for strong, varied rhythms, inventive structures, and rich, sometimes surprising harmonies. Threaded through them all are simple melodies that occasionally evoke country music or other sounds of his Southwest background (Wichita Lineman features the wow-wow-wow sound of the prairie wind whipping through electrical wires). "A pop song should have a lyric that's basically a poem," Webb says. "If people get the feeling, then the lyric is successful-whether they know what I'm talking about or not." Typical...
Dylan, on the new album, is doing something that's similar to his early folk style, but he's not going back to anything. The message of these songs is so amazing, put across so convincingly that a friend told me, "Wow, think of all the people who are going to hear this and then turn around and look over their shoulder and wonder where they've been going...
...from unbridled ecstasy at the University of Kansas and Kansas State, to enthusiasm at Vanderbilt in Nashville, to friendly acceptance in the potentially hostile territory of the University of Al abama at Tuscaloosa. It was a double demonstration: Eugene McCarthy has no monopoly on collegiate affection; Kennedy can still wow...