Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...preparing for Carnegie Hall after his triumph at the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow: "Deeply religious, and a conscientious teetotaler...he gives 20% of his net earnings to the Baptist Church. During Evangelist Billy Graham's Manhattan crusade last year, Van sang in the Madison Square Garden choir...Buffalo Philharmonic Conductor Josef Krips recalls the time that Van came into his dressing room before a performance and said, 'Maestro, let us pray.' Krips, a Roman Catholic, dropped to his knees with the pianist. Said Van: 'God give us his grace and power to make good music together...
DIED. JAMES ("Jimmy the Gent") BURKE, 64, clotheshorse, gangster and suspected mastermind of the $6 million Lufthansa heist of 1978; of cancer; in Buffalo, New York. Robert De Niro played Burke in the film Goodfellas...
...looks as if flatulent cows are contributing to global warming and their hooves are destroying the earth's soil. It sure is a good thing that we killed off all those buffalo years ago before they did any more damage. DONALD OSTERGARD Drumheller, Canada...
...council had the option of paying $7500 for the band Buffalo Tom or $8250 for Pharcyde, and council members decided Pharcyde was worth the additional expense...
...guest performance at Lincoln Center. Just as had happened 26 years earlier when his mentor Leonard Bernstein stepped in for Bruno Walter, the young stand-in performed brilliantly, the critics raved, and a new star moved to the front ranks of American conductors. His recordings were praised, and the Buffalo Philharmonic named him its musical director in 1971. But a 1978 marijuana bust at Kennedy airport tarnished his reputation, and by the time Tilson Thomas left the U.S. to become principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra in 1987, he had become yesterday's sensation...