Word: bouzoukis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pallid attempts to imitate Keith Jarret's flourishes. The arrangements do nothing to cover for Hubgaucheries. To evoke Arabia, Hubbard gives us Bedouin ritual music, calling up wailing strings. For a picture of Siberian wilderness, we hear martial strains reminiscent of the Dr. Zhivago score, followed by a short bouzouki solo...
...graced by tunes like "Russian Roulette, 1st and 2nd movement"--the story of a Russian archduke who rides across Siberia, plays Russian roulette, dies and rises again from the dead. The death is heralded by crashing chords from Hubbard's piano, the ascension by a rising run on the bouzouki. As "Russian Roulette" gives way to "Dream #23," Clarke--in his sole appearance on the album--gives a grim picture of war-wracked Stuart England. His bass conveys depression and despair by a simple, minor sequence. Hubbard tries to flesh out the piece by drastically slowing the tempo and playing...
Athens, on the other hand, has everything. "The bouzouki music, the food," says an Arab. "You might almost say the Greeks are Arabs wearing pants." Even Athens' shops and hotels can compare with Beirut's. Airline, telephone and telex service is excellent, and there is still a sufficient amount of modern office space. True, prices are high; the rent for much desired villas with swimming pools in suburban Kifissia has doubled recently, to about $1,000 a month. Even so, points out one recent corporate settler, Edwin P. Hoffman, senior vice president of Citibank, "Athens has the schools...
Belly Dancers. After the honeymoon, the marriage was filled with what one intimate of Ari's called "the nights of long silences." Jackie loved concerts, ballet and theater; Onassis preferred raucous bouzouki music, belly dancers and at times the company of roistering Greek businessmen. Much of the time they lived separate lives; Jackie had visited her husband, who had been in the hospital for five weeks, a few days earlier but was in New York City last week at the time of his death. When they were both in Manhattan, she resided with her children Caroline and John...