Word: bert
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...McMahon 10 91 340 3.7 18 2 Silas Myers 9 70 250 3.6 17 3 Tim Perry 10 125 229 1.8 22 5 Andy Bell 6 38 174 4.6 21 1 Mark Bianchi 10 14 121 8.6 19 2 Chuck Greene 10 17 81 4.8 150 Bert Smyers 3 12 57 4.8 10 0 A. Lazarre-White...
Mingus specified most of the musicians he wanted to play Epitaph. Two were at Lincoln Center last week: Eddie Bert on trombone and Don Butterfield on tuba. For the performers, keeping Epitaph alive has been a labor of love, although not without its complications. Five or six sections of the work, Schuller contends, are as difficult as anything in the classical repertory, comparable in density to Charles Ives' Fourth Symphony or Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. "These parts are so complex contrapuntally," says Schuller, "that musicians used to conventional jazz expression are just overwhelmed. It leaves them huffing and puffing...
...BERT PARKS...
...nearly 100 copies of The Ants by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson. Published by Harvard University Press, the hefty volume is the result of 20 years of collaborative field and laboratory studies by Holldobler and his better-known Harvard colleague. For Wilson, 61, one of the school's most popular professors and curator of entomology at its Museum of Comparative Zoology, the book represents another exploration into the controversial field of sociobiology, a discipline he founded to study the "biological basis of social behavior...
...this, and Bert Parks in a sombrero, warbling Tequila. Pretty rich. And though it's hard to say if old Bert knows he's being funny, the other actors do know, and joyously strut their best comic stuff. As Carmine's nephew, who arranges his meeting with Clark, Bruno Kirby redefines the combined bluster, sleaze and obsequiousness of the typical New York City fringe dweller. Maximilian Schell is in high, black humor as a madly galloping gourmet chef (you don't want to think too hard about his plans for that dragon). And Paul Benedict's pomposity, pretentiousness and venality...