Word: bandness
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...soon the sun, an orange gob, slid down the cobalt sky, and the field lights came on. Slab-sided referees took their positions. The combatants appeared, 17-year-old Texans big around as the bole of a sequoia born when the local mail came by Pony Express. The Midland band played Dixie. Young drill teams strutted: the dancers had the tendony legs of Appaloosas--and orthodontia that cost the earth. A student gave the prayer over the loudspeaker: "Thanks for getting us here O.K., Lord, and I just pray you let the boys play without any harm to anyone...
...Sting the perfect person? If we are to believe this film, the rock idol comes as close to that status as mortal man may aspire. It chronicles, from early rehearsals through first concerts, the formation of his new band, composed entirely of black American jazz musicians. Sting is convinced that their music and his should cross-fertilize. Besides, he is striking a blow against the "reactionary and racist" music business. Objectively, it has never seemed a dangerous hotbed of those sentiments, but the man's heart is in the right place. Just watch him being loyal, trustworthy, gutsy and modest...
...some of the changes this fall. After killing off Bobby Ewing in a car accident last spring, Dallas has resurrected Mark Graison (John Beck), another ex-beau of Pamela Ewing (Victoria Principal), who supposedly went down in a fatal plane crash a couple of seasons ago. That other hardy band of TV survivalists, the Carringtons of Dynasty, emerged from last spring's terrorist machine-gun attack with hardly a scratch among them, and are now cloning a new series, Dynasty II: The Colbys. Over at Falcon Crest, Apollonia, the sexy rock singer and protégé of Prince, has joined...
...intimate warmth of the basement, three different groups quietly waited for what was supposed to be a short period of time as the stage was set up. After just over half an hour, the delayed show finally began with the one-man band, Avi Varma...
Later, at 10:15, Music-167: The Band, a group consisting exclusively of Harvard students, took the stage to give an unusual performance, inspired by the music class, “Music 167: Electro-Acoustic Composition,” which the group of six is currently taking. The band’s disjointed set included a variety of seemingly mismatched musical instruments that ranged from a classical violin to the primitive, rhythmic pounding of a fist (this same fist seconds before had also gracefully danced on a laptop’s keyboard...