Word: barbra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yellow Phantom V. Lord Mountbatten bought a new one nearly every year. Indian maharajas ordered them gold-plated, Lawrence of Arabia covered his with armor. Field Marshal Montgomery's Rolls was the first private car to land with Allied forces on D day. Other owners have included Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand and the Michael Jackson clan, who are said to own eight among them. Queen Elizabeth has five Rolls-Royces and was disturbed when she saw the new square side mirrors on her latest, a 1978 Phantom VI. Company officials scrambled to replace them with the old round version...
...show, the range from which they are choosing is eclectic: Burke says she plans to sing songs by the Prefenders, the Eurythmics, and the Motels: Miller says she will sing jazz tunes-like Billie Holiday's-and "upbeat" music like Chaka Khan's LaCrosby will perform works by Barbra Streisand and the Talking Heads...
...Nobody's Side, has Florence offering words to the wounded ("Never stay too long in your bed,/ Never lose your heart, use your head"), and Paige taunts the lyric into an anthem of cold-steel defiance. Here she evokes the clarion brass of Ethel Merman, the liquid phrasing of Barbra Streisand and the rasping energy of the Ronettes--an electrifying amalgam. Chess reveals Paige as the strongest, smartest voice in today's musical theater...
...Jonathan Cott elicits from the reclusive Canadian his views on teaching ("Given half an hour of your time and your spirit and a quiet room, I could teach any of you how to play the piano"), composers ("I really don't like Mozart") and pop music ("At her best, Barbra Streisand is probably the greatest singing actress since Maria Callas"). Often technical, and sometimes sycophantic, the book is perhaps best appreciated by Gould aficionados, but it gives an insight into the pianist's eclectic thought processes...
These tours operate out of the Holoyoke Center Information Center, whose manager, Barbra Drake, says they originated with an idea of former President James B. Conant '12. Conant "felt that because of the image of the University throughout the United States as an austere place, the President wanted to make some place where people could feel welcome," she explains...