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...Barroso; in the 1950s and '60s it was soft-swaying bossa nova and Antonio Carlos (Tom) Jobim, Joao and Astrud Gilberto. Then, in the late 1960s and '70s, the Tropicalia movement marched in, armed with rock guitars and rebel lyrics and led by Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Gal Costa...
...since, it has been relying in part on a processing center in New Jersey, but many of the communication lines have been out of action for much of the week. "I had to send [records of] $400 billion in bond deals over to BONY in a taxi," said Thomas Costa, chief operating officer of Government Securities Clearing Corp., a firm that processes securities deals worth more than $875 billion daily. "It's a question of connectivity " says a BONY spokesman, referring to telecommunications links between the bank and its customers. And BONY is by no means alone: Scores of major...
Surti volunteered teaching children in Costa Rica during one summer while she was in college and while she studied abroad in Spain for a semester had also found time to teach children...
...songwriting and the old-fashioned ambition to go legit. The first hint of Darin?s staying power was "Dream Lover," a lovely potpourri of pop modes: the plinking rhythm of "Little Darlin?" (done pizzicato by violins here), the release from "This Little Girl of Mine" and a Don Costa-like mixed chorus, with women singing the heavenly-choir "ooo"s and men answering this siren call with a goofy but musically beguiling "wadda-wadda." Darin?s vocal is much more assured, as if he?d just learned not only how to sing, but why. He wrote a sweet song about...
...She’s very very into children,” said Treeny Ahmed ’01, who was a friend of Surti. She noted that Surti volunteered teaching children in Costa Rica during one summer while she was in college and while she studied abroad in Spain for a semester had also found time to teach children...