Word: burt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some Americans fear that Aristide wants to be restored to power by a U.S. invasion he would refuse to support and would quickly denounce, thereby getting the best of both worlds. Burt Wides, an American lawyer working for Aristide, counters with a suspicion that the talk of invasion is a smoke screen behind which the Clinton Administration is trying to make a deal for a "center-right coalition"; Cedras and some friends would resign, but army thugs and the Haitian business elite would retain enough power in a new government, whether headed theoretically by Aristide or by someone else...
...Stockpot, which first opened 18 years ago, had been owned since 1979 by Burt and Marsha Gilman and their daughter, Lisa Gilman...
...Steve L. Burt '93-'94 stands with his arms stretched between two dials on opposite walls of the small room. The commercial for the Middle East Restaurant trails off, and thundering rhythm fills the studio as Steve fades up the next song. He is bent at the waist, intently playing a heavily distorted air guitar, when the phone interrupts his gyrations. Kardhym Kelley '94 finds the next song on the second turntable and with a quick smile remarks, "Sometimes you don't have any idea what speed setting to play this music...
...Record Hospital is a nocturnal organization whose purpose is to "expose people to great rock music that they'd otherwise have a hard time finding," according to disc jockey Burt. On the air from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. every night except Sunday, when it starts at midnight, the Record Hospital has become a fixture of the Boston underground music scene by playing rock that is generally unknown and often unusual. The Record Hospital, however, does not value the music it plays solely for its rarity...
Some unity is brought to the steady stream of new releases by the Top 20 Countdown on Monday nights from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Cohosted by Burt and Kelly, the countdown is made up of the 20 new songs that have been played the most because of listener requests and DJ selection. The countdown allows listeners to become more familiar with new songs and receive additional information about new artists. The Top 20 is followed by Ultrasound at 11 p.m., which focuses specifically on up and coming Boston-area bands...