Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tucker slumps on the clinic sofa eating a bag of salted nuts when a nurse hands him his latest piece of hate mail -- "No one has to kill you. You are already dead," it reads. To get home to Birmingham, Tucker must drive 250 miles that night...
Long considered indispensable indicators of a community's sophistication, orchestras are in danger of becoming cultural dinosaurs. Some are already extinct: within the past decade, major ensembles have collapsed in cities as disparate as Oakland, California; New Orleans; Denver and Birmingham, Alabama. Endowments have been tapped and seasons shortened; crowd-pleasing pops concerts have been added and community-outreach programs established. And yet the slide continues. Gathering last month in New York City for their gloomiest convention in years, the members of the American Symphony Orchestra League heard a stark message: Change...
OTHER STORMS PILED UP MORE SNOW, RECORDED higher winds, killed more people. But for combined extent and intensity, the Blizzard of '93, as it was called in most of the U.S., was in a class by itself. Tornadoes in Florida, record cold in Alabama (2 degreesF in Birmingham), mountainous snows from North Carolina (50 in. at Mount Mitchell) to New York (43 in. at Syracuse), hurricane-force winds (110 m.p.h. in Franklin County, Florida) -- all were part of the same monster storm system that from March 12 to March 15 spread death and destruction from Cuba, where three died...
...turned down hundreds of personal-appearance requests that were deemed "unpresidential" by aides, but the Clintonites say they will agree to almost anything. "The weirder, the better," said a booker. In early February Clinton appeared in a promotional teaser for a sports-blooper show on a TV station in Birmingham, Alabama. "Just watching one of my regular White House jogs would make your Hall of Shame," plugged Clinton...
When the Harvard Glee Club performed on television in Birmingham, Ala., as part of their 1961 spring break tour of the South, one Black singer was asked not to sing with the group because of bomb threats...