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...information booth, ripped off the clock hands, scribbled graffiti and defiantly passed around lighted marijuana "joints" in full view of the Tactical Patrol Force. The fuzz charged, billy clubs flailing, and arrested 61 demonstrators. Battered but unbowed, the celebrants coursed off to the Central Park Sheep Meadow to "yip...
Perhaps more than other musical groups, the Fish are very politically and socially oriented. Joe spent a good deal of time Friday night building up the planned "YIP" Convention--the Youth International Party--that he has been organizing along with Arlo Guthrie and other musicians. He views the convention as opposition to the "National Death Party." In Chicago, Joe said, from August 25 to August 30, "there's going to be something happening all the time...
...music is appealing, exciting, frequently lovely. Even the lyrics (by Yip Harburg, who collaborated on the book) are clever, far better than the dialogue. If the play, which premiered in 1948, usually seems about ten years older than it is, many of its songs, at least, have broken free of time altogether...
Near the outset, the girls begin to yip like Chippewas and throw their skirts in the air while the orchestra saws out some Offenbach, and they kick up their legs in what can be precisely described as the can't-can't. Georges Ulmer, the man who wrote the ballad Pigalle and who acts as M.C., tells a joke: "The Folies-Bergère is an old institution, nearly 100 years old. Of course, lately we have changed some of the girls." He does not say which ones, and without radioactive carbon it is absolutely impossible to tell...
...robe made for Queen Victoria's children was dug out of the attic for him to wear. But none of that made the slightest impression on the son of Princess Alexandra and Angus Ogilvy. Just like any other healthy ten-week-old, he let out a sharp little yip as he was baptized James Robert Bruce Ogilvy...