Word: clubbings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back at the University in the guise of a first-year Law School student. And it seems that the thousands of miles have been replaced with thousands of pages of briefs about whether the elite Fly Club can continue to deny membership to women...
...Felix Bloch it was "just another day," but a meal with him last week at Washington's posh Jockey Club took place under the watchful gaze of FBI agents two tables away, while a posse of reporters and TV cameramen waited outside. Two months have passed since the State Department accused Bloch of contacts with a Soviet agent, setting off a circus of public surveillance but no formal charges. Yet as Bloch sipped a vodka tonic and spoke angrily of the "F Bureau of Incompetents," he seemed little changed from the career foreign-service officer I have known for more...
...part, Living Colour could use a little of the Stones' legendary entree. Theirs has not been an easy road. They were a hot club band on the East Coast, "really quite well known," as Mick Jagger says. "But they couldn't get a record deal because they were black and they weren't playing funk. They didn't fit into a category." A black band romping in the white world of hard rock is an anomaly (or, as the promo men would say, a hard sell) even today. Musicians may cross over a lot, but radio stations seldom do. Vernon...
Marley likes rap ("Yeah, mon. It's cool") but swears allegiance to reggae. Rap has proved to be a fertile source of inspiration for the ravishing Nenah Cherry, whose hit single Buffalo Stance dressed street sound up in supper-club clothes without sacrificing funk. Bobby Brown, the soul flash of the moment, made an album that sold more than 4 million copies and spawned three hit singles, marrying the sensuality of Marvin Gaye to the unearthly musical surprises of Prince...
...possible after the conquest of Poland, but the plan was delayed first by objections from the German generals, then by bad weather, then by a bizarre twist of fortune. A Luftwaffe major who carried a set of the invasion plans in his briefcase was sitting in an officers club in Munster and bemoaning the long train trip to a planning conference in Cologne the next day; another major, who was getting too old for active duty, offered to fly him there so that he could log some more cockpit time for himself. The two set off in a new Messerschmitt...