Word: regalia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rosen said yesterday the union has also mailed the letter to the Harvard Coop, which acts as Cotrell and Leonard's agent in supplying Harvard students with the regalia...
...business on this record. Part of the problem is the manifest influence of Malcolm MacLaren, the Sex Pistols' manager, who apparently drove Rotten from the band and tried to fill the vacuum. MacLaren is the same imbecile who tried to dress up the New York Dolls in Communist regalia and helped to ensure their demise. He actually sings a track on this album. "You Need Hands," but I have found that a carefully etched groove will cause your needle to skip over it entirely...
...forgotten/ This is a song about Johnny Rotten") and a long, spooky tune called Powderfinger - are among the best things he has done. But Young is not immune to the coyness and irresolution that plague Dylan. Roadies from Star Wars and sound mixers in wizard regalia can get as tiresome as Dylan's mocking show-biz turns. The difference is that Young continues to write well and grow, while Dylan seems stalled right now. Times have not gone past him so much as Dylan has put himself into a kind of precarious suspension. Instead of making the music...
...conditioners. The Sawhill movement, intelligent for reasons besides conservation, vanished faster than a Nehru suit. The men's neckwear lobby protested, and Sawhill backed down. Well, fellas, he said, just loosen your ties. But the look he proposed was wrong anyhow. When a businessman in full regalia removes only his tie (retaining the dark shoes, the suit, the shirt buttoned at the wrists), then he looks like a sharecropper-or an executive being held by terrorists. Something is missing...
...although the direction is weak, other elements carry the show. At once commanding and warm, Thomas Champion has the necessary stature for the good-natured, safety-net God of a Duke, a ruler who visits his people in disguise, manipulating their lives as much when incognito as when in regalia...