Word: bande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shove this spring, Gates suddenly started tossing out concessions like bonbons, however, tends to suggest that deep down he's known all along things aren't quite that simple. The past few weeks have been tough on Microsoft. Everyone from the DOJ to foreign governments to a growing band of state attorneys general stood ready to take the company to court. Its latest bumbling p.r. gambit--trotting out computer-industry execs like windup toys to halfheartedly raise the specter of widespread economic disaster should Win 98 be delayed, even for a matter of months--succeeded only in reinforcing the company...
Harry James must have sensed it too, because he had hired Sinatra, then a scrawny spoiler in his mid-20s, to sing with the band. Present at the creation, James could not have read the signs. The title of an early Sinatra-James hit was one of those anthemic declarations of defiance that, over the years and through the decades, was to form the Sinatra autobiography: All or Nothing...
...made, and despite the hundreds of glories he left behind--from I'll Never Smile Again of 1940 to Hey Look, No Crying of 1981--there were songs that eluded him till the end. Studio outtakes and bootlegs show him chiding the arranger, bugging the conductor, riding the band and beating up on himself with a good-humored swagger that doesn't hide the disappointment and frustration that are chewing him up. You can hear the defeat in his voice, as if he had lost a chance at lasting love...
...songs went that deep in him, and not many ever got away. He made it seem as if they came easy, but he had to fight to have it look that way. When he was still active, he vocalized every day. Singing with the Dorsey band in the early '40s, he kept on tap a voice teacher who was a former opera singer. Later on he would turn to Metropolitan Opera soprano Dorothy Kirsten and baritone Robert Merrill for pointers on technique. "He knew they knew...how to maintain the equipment," Sinatra's longtime conductor, Vincent Falcone, told writer Will...
...many charms of the electro-rock band Garbage is the group's expectations-lowering name. After all, if you buy a ticket to a movie called Big-Budget Bomb or vote for, say, a gubernatorial candidate named Mr. Lecherous Promise-Breaker, you've got no one to blame but yourself if things turn...