Word: artful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bump! He was beginning to find his own way. There were other lessons to learn. His teacher played him some Art Tatum. Bump! " 'Does he have three hands?' It was the first time I heard something I couldn't see myself doing." He kept on learning and playing. He met Marsalis during his days at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Bump again! Marsalis talked to Roberts about the roots of jazz, challenged him intellectually, encouraged him to develop a philosophy: "Feeling is not fact." By senior year Marsalis invited Roberts to play a few gigs. Florida State promptly lost...
...ART DIRECTOR: Rudolph C. Hoglund...
Whether new or vintage, all Peoples eyewear shares a kind of avant-garde antiquarianism. These are the specs Benjamin Franklin would have worn if he'd been into performance art instead of kite flying. Two Peoples best sellers: frames that combine tortoiseshell eye pieces and temples with a wire bridge (Nick Nolte sports a pair in the recent New York Stories); and clip-on sunglasses, the sort that '30s movie stars would attach to their specs to check out a polo match over at Will Rogers' place...
...ART DIRECTOR: Rudolph C. Hoglund...
...spiritual home, he prefers the convenience and anonymity of large hotels and jetliners where, 30,000 ft. above the chaos, he can clasp a pillow to his stomach, insist that "reading is too important to do on airplanes" and begin once again to turn high anxiety into high art...