Word: kinship
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...Dylan didn't just materialize, in the Village, "modern Gomorrah," he called it, in 1960. The pop-cult 50s was Dylan's home-or, at last, his sleepover when he was a kid. In Chronicles he describes his feeling of kinship with smooth-singing Bobby Vee and Ricky Nelson, with the composer Harold Arlen and the wrestler Gorgeous George. He also played occasionally in rock band and briefly backed Vee in 1959, when the Buddy Holly soundalike singer was booked to fill the dates Holly couldn't make because he'd died in a plane crash in a frosty Iowa...
...most of the songs nowadays that are bein' written uptown in Tin Pan Alley -- that's where most of the folk songs come from nowadays -- this, this is a song, this wasn't written up there. This was written somewhere down in the United States." In fact, Dylan had kinship to those great songwriters, especially to the kids his age, at exactly this time, who were toiling away up in the Brill Building writing for Phil Spector and his black girl groups. The connection went back ever further, for Dylan was as brilliant and canny an imitator, synthesizer and transformer...
...Trondheim is the strangest of the group. Presented as a reprint of a comic book from another planet, it includes (minimal) dialogue in some untranslatable language. Anyone familiar with the bizarre works of Jim Woodring, who specializes in creating mute, inexplicable worlds of beauty and danger, will immediately see kinship between the two authors. The book looks, at arm's length, like something for kids, with cute characters akin to Pokemon, interacting in a colorful environment. But a closer read reveals a cruel world of domination and subjugation that often involves weird forms of violence. "Why is the purple...
...were making plans and looking forward to Elizabeth's coronation like a family planning a favorite daughter's wedding (see ART). They mean it to be her TIME, JANUARY 5, 1953 party, but they mean it to be a family party as well. The common sense and kinship Elizabeth shares with her people are both exemplified in her decision, against stiff conservative prejudice, to let TV enter the Abbey so that all the family may share the ceremony...
...Great Britain, practically finishing each other's sentences as they trouble-shoot their way through Iran?s nuclear brinksmanship, Israeli-Palestinian hostilities or sectarian tensions in Iraq. But as the two learned on Friday, a vocal part of the British people don't necessarily share a sense of kinship with their brethren ? or at least their brethrens' elected government ? across the Atlantic...