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Together--and often working with the brilliant arranging skills of Nelson Riddle--Fitzgerald and Granz then went on to songbooks for the likes of Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Duke Ellington, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Irving Berlin and Johnny Mercer, the great composers of the great era of American popular music. Those songbooks became the foundation of a legacy, the single source for a musical standard that Fitzgerald, as much as anyone, helped make timeless. "Some kids in Italy call me 'Mama Jazz,'" she recalled. "I thought that was so cute. As long as they...
...inherent contradiction. (Helms, in fact, has been a Morris client; the Saint of Calcutta hasn't called him as yet.) What these critics overlook, says Henry Sheinkopf, a consultant who works with Morris on the Clinton media team, "is that Dick is a man of the sensible middle: a brilliant strategist, of course, but one driven by centrist ideas. He wants to draw politicians from the left and right into the mainstream. He does it by using his huge antennae to pick up the issues that are about to move the electorate...
...1980s, though, when Witten turned his attention to superstrings, he was widely regarded as the most gifted physicist in the world, and perhaps the most brilliant who has ever lived. And simply by choosing to work in the field, he utterly transformed it. Says Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist at New York University: "I remember fondly that back in the '70s, superstring theory was like a cottage industry. Only a handful of us diehards worked on it. But when Ed Witten declared that the theory would dominate the next 50 years of physics, it was like a tidal wave...
...handful of jaunty Nat King Cole Trio tunes into a set of languid, open-hearted meditations with unexpected emotional impact. Accompanying herself on piano, she also showed that she knows how to swing--pounding out driving, rock-solid rhythms with her trio; when she soloed, she created patterns of brilliant, light-fingered notes that evoked Cole's easy, vibrant style. Audience appreciation for Krall always seems leavened with astonishment--as if it is difficult to believe that so much soulfulness and glamour can be in the same place at the same time...
...Dole will walk into the Senate chambers tomorrow as he has for the past 27 years, a powerful Kansas Senator. He will walk out, as he has described himself, as just an ordinary man running for president. Dole's Senate legacy is pragmatic, one not so much of crafting brilliant legislative initiatives, as getting them passed. In 1965, he teamed up with Senator George McGovern to salvage the faltering food stamps program. In 1990 he brought President Bush around to support the Americans With Disabilities Act, although the legislation bears the name of Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin. In 1982, Dole...