Word: greenwich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro. "I couldn't dig that scene very hard anyway," he says. By that time, he was learning the guitar to Muddy Waters records on his back porch. After a stint as a paratrooper, he toured the rhythm-and-blues circuit, working his way to Nashville, Harlem, Greenwich Village and finally London...
Indeed, the mild catcalls and bilious banner-waving provided last week by several hundred Greenwich Village vigilantes in front of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art seemed a slur on the once dread name of Dada. They were protesting a survey of Dada and surrealism, replete with crispy fried canapés, Galanos evening gowns, and a "bourgeois" black-tie dinner...
...fund-raising drive for show business's Variety Clubs International charities. Queen Victoria's great-grandson found Manhattan's haute cuisine smashing good, and said the same for the city's low life, capping a party-filled stay with a visit to Greenwich Village's Electric Circus...
...union wages" and set out to lay the groundwork for a company of his own. He taught by day, took classes by night and, beginning at sunrise, held rehearsals for his own ballets, which were performed at the 92nd Street Y.M.H.A. In 1952, he rented a loft in a Greenwich Village building that formerly housed the American Communist Party and, in the best spirit of free enterprise, opened Robert Jeffrey's American Ballet Center...
Bruce's conviction grew out of an arrest for delivering a scatological monologue at the Café Au Go Go, a Greenwich Village coffeehouse. In the criminal trial, Judges John M. Murtagh and J. Randall Creel said that Bruce had "clearly debased sex and insulted it," in addition to using basic English synonyms for incest, sodomy and excrement. Thus, they ruled, Bruce had exceeded all three of the U.S. Supreme Court guidelines that currently determine legal obscenity. These guidelines state that material is obscene if it appeals dominantly to prurient interest, breaches contemporary standards relating to the description...