Word: detroit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...group of leading columnists and reporters may end the two-week strike against both major Detroit newspapers. Sixunionsrepresenting 2,500 workers walked off their jobs at the Gannett-owned Detroit News and Knight-Ridder's Free Press on July 13 over proposed job cuts and pay changes. But the journalists, who include sportswriter Mitch Albom, film critic Susan Stark, and veteran auto writer Doron Levin, tell TIME Daily that they have run out of patience with what they say is mostly aTeamsterissue (which the publishers characterize as "featherbedding"), one that is hurting their papers financially as the strike continues. Says...
...DETROIT COMPUTER BULLETIN board lists the names of local agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and offers helpful advice on how to harass them. A licensed gun dealer, required to surrender his business records to ATF's national tracing center, coated them first with rat excrement. A flyer found posted in Pennsylvania reads WANTED: ATF AGENT. DEAD...
...continuous expatriation. Nobody knows why; Whistler may not have been sure himself. He feared not being honored as a prophet in his own country, but in fact his work was eagerly sought by American collectors and portrait clients, some of whom were all but obsessed by it; the Detroit millionaire Charles Freer owned 40 of his paintings and hundreds of his drawings. Moreover, he was a prophet--Americans imitated him, especially photographers. After 1900, Alfred Stieglitz and his circle labored to give their prints the evocative blur, the tonal harmony, the self-conscious aestheticism of Whistler's night and twilight...
...Hank Jones play--it's like listening to an orchestra," Haden says. An orchestra full of sly virtuosity that finds in its past not only inspiration but also renewal. Jones is 76, playing at the top of his form and calling on a whole lifetime of talent. Born in Detroit, where he would go to meeting at the Michigan Baptist Church, Jones ultimately chose to follow the jazz life, a through route from home to perdition. "My father," he recalls, "thought jazz was the music of the devil." The devil took him straight to the Apple; took his younger brothers...
Choice programs established in Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Louis, San Antonio and Montgomery County, Md. allow parents to choose the public schools which their children attend, rather than having attendance determined by conventional school district zoning...