Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grabbed the microphone away from the Law of the Sea to read the statement on the 1 a.m. curfew. It is a thankless task. "The situation must be corrected if there is to be an HMUN next year." She is greeted by expletives and boos, and loses her cool: "You brought this upon yourself -- you're being a big pain in the ass and we don't like it any better than you do. This was not our idea...
DIED. Lennie Tristano, 59, pianist, teacher and composer, who was a pioneer of cool, light, fluid jazz; of a heart attack; in Jamaica, N.Y. A Chicago boy blinded by measles at nine, Tristano later experimented with welding classical music to jazz and developed his own style of long melodic lines and shifting harmonies. Organizing several combos, he allowed each musician to play his own melody in his own key and rhythm with results that anticipated by a decade the free jazz experiments of Ornette Coleman...
...cool gentility seems to prevail in the library. Carpeting, large, airy rooms, and nineteenth-century portraits of women signal how far one is from Lamont...
...place, alternating Sousa with the theme from Rocky, while cheerleaders flash blue and white pompoms. Five candidates for Pleasant Valley Homecoming Queen wait with feigned casualness in a special section, shyly grinning escorts at their sides. Just as it should be, the smell of burning leaves hangs in the cool...
...sixtyish screenwriter and seducer of bored young Bel Air wives, speaks of his affection for Director Jill Peel. Book 2 collects the machismo sputterings of Producer Owen Oarson, who moves in as Jill's great physical love. Book 3 is written in Jill's voice-a cool meditation on her life, her men, and their inscrutable ways...