Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bowie's devotion to music comes naturally, Born in St. Louis to a long line of brass players, and oldest of the school bandmaster's three musical sons, Bowie learned early the wonders of his beloved trumpet. He also learned well. At 15 he was a union professional, although he had been earning money for gigs long before that. By 20, Bowie knew that music was his passion and his meal ticket...
...Aside from the AEC, he travelled with Roots to the Source, a band made up of his ex-wife Fontella Bass, her gospel singing mother Martha, and brother David Peaston, along with drummer Philip Wilson (an old pal), and Chicago based saxophonist Ari Brown. Bowie also formed the new Brass Fantasy group from the core of the New York Hot Trumpet Repertory Company, and he plans to record with them at the end of this summer...
Shrime's company, Micro Star, next month will begin offering the paperback-size instrument in both a plastic case ($400) and a brass one ($700). To use the device, travelers press a button to enter the name of the city they are visiting. A built-in microprocessor then does virtually all the rest. Shrime, a Lebanese Christian, spent two years designing the guide after consulting with Middle East Islamic leaders. The device has legions of potential customers: Islam counts more than 500 million followers...
...prices are enough to send anyone to the couch. Some chairs go for $5,500, sofas for $6,200 and Architect Michael Graves' maple, brass and lacquered wood single-bed unit fetches a breathtaking $19,500. But Memphis' business-minded president Ernesto Gismondi, who also owns the highly successful Artemide line, is pushing for more marketable designs and prices. Memphis' latest edition sports straighter legs, more illuminating lamps and affordable price tags. "Fust," a metal-and-wood side chair by De Lucchi, for instance, sells...
During 1981 and 1982 alone, they succeeded in eliminating 500 government leaders, fully 70% of Khomeini's top brass. But although they have scored relatively few victories recently, the guerrillas are by no means ready to accept defeat. "We are dealing with Khomeini in our own way," Mujahedin National Commander Ali Zarkesh, 34, said in his Tehran hideout to an Iranian journalist. (The group's overall leader, Massoud Rajavi, is in exile in Paris.) "We are slowly suffocating his regime, spreading a creeping paralysis throughout his military-police apparatus." The most wanted man on the Ayatullah...