Word: allen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. LUCILLE KALLEN, 76, comedy writer for Your Show of Shows; in Ardsley, N.Y. Kallen was the only woman writer for Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca's classic 1950s show, where she worked with such comics as Carl Reiner and Woody Allen. Reiner, who later created The Dick Van Dyke Show, based the character Sally Rogers partly on Kallen...
...Percentage by which Reebok has decreased production of Allen Iverson basketball shoes...
With 30 seconds left in the game, a fightnearly broke out involving Adams and Steve Moore.B.C. defenseman Bobby Allen kept shoving Mooreafter the whistle in an attempt to provoke him,but Moore wisely kept his temper and only shoved alittle back. All players involved received minorpenalties...
...series' final scene is its saddest and wisest. On Delacroix Island, at the mouth of the Mississippi, we meet Irvan and Allen Perez, two cousins who belong to the Islenos, a Spanish-speaking people who first settled in Louisiana 200 years ago. The Perezes are fishermen. As they work, they sing slow, bittersweet a cappella songs called decimas--10-stanza numbers, mostly in Spanish, that tell the stories of their lives and communities. They sing of shrimp boats and muskrat trappers, bad weather and home mortgages. Their voices are piercing and pure. Allen sings...
...mournful song but stubbornly hopeful. His performance reminds the listener that American music is broad and big, like a river, and it keeps flowing. Pop music suddenly seems like just a glass of tap water. Allen's song is one you'll probably never hear on the radio, never see performed on TV--except on River of Song. How much other water is unexplored? Tune in to this series and drink deep...