Word: calabash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...afternoon continued with joyful singing and dancing as a quintet struck polyrhythmic beats on conga drums and calabash gourds wrapped in beads...
Sherlock Holmes drew out a fine case, puffing leisurely at his calabash while pondering each clue until he deduced the culprit. Detecting, in the quintessential sleuth's day, required more than an agile mind; it took time. Of course, times change. Two of fiction's newest detectives have the necessary brainpower: they're young (in their 30s) African-American professionals (a professor and a doctor). These women, however, are so upwardly mobile that they can barely pencil murder into their crammed calendars...
Women of the Calabash--perform music from Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and Black America. Bentley Colleg, Lindsay Auditorium, Beaver and Forest Sts., Waltham. Thursday...
...year-old artist--who is frequently seen around the Square sporting a black top hat and smoking a Calabash pipe--said there are still lots of hippies around today. The reason they do not come together more often, Franzen said, is that the coffee houses where they once hung out left Harvard Square as commercial rents soared...