Word: cools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happiness a facade? Says SNL producer Lorne Michaels: "I'm not sure how well people really knew him. There was much more to him than appeared on the surface. I don't mean he was hiding anything as much as he was always very cool and pro." For someone known for his smirking Jesus, Hartman had a surprising piety. As he dealt with his father's death from Alzheimer's disease in April, he told the Catholic News Service, "Our faith prepares us for what lies ahead and tells us that it's a mystery to us, and we tremble...
...tell the truth (and letters are for telling the truth), I have never minded anything about this wedding. The man you're marrying, a father's loss of daughter, yet another rite of aging--they have all been cool with me. As for the bill collectors, they'll get paid eventually. What are they going to do, take back the wedding...
...uprising that began when Louis Armstrong blew his first hot notes grew into a revolution. Continually shifting--Big Band, bebop, cool--and propelled by the sorcery of improvisation, jazz absorbs, transforms, discards, but always replenishes itself. Here are some of the other cats who made things swing...
MILES DAVIS (1926-1991) Kind of Blue, Davis' landmark 1959 recording with John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, was the apotheosis of Cool Jazz. Distilling the music to an almost bare essence, Davis and arranger Bill Evans created a lean, sensuous sound that broke with the intensity of bebop and attracted thousands of new listeners to jazz. Davis' warm, amber tone was the model for a generation of trumpeters...
...excited about grapes--grapes are cool," said Mikhail S. Ulinich '99. "I just hope they're seedless...