Word: dixielanders
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...vines, ivy and snakeskins. Dr. John's music is a pulsating blend of African and Caribbean rhythms and dry-throated incantations. As it turns out, Dr. John comes from New Orleans, and his latest ATCO LP, Gumbo, is a personal nostalgia trip, a rollicking pastiche of voodoo, rumba, Dixieland and good old Mardi Gras stomp. If his high skill shows the inventive, assimilative style of a virtuoso studio musician, it is because Dr. John used to be just that under his real name, Mac Rebennack...
...York City ferryboat became a Mississippi stern-wheeler for a day -tootling its way up the Hudson River to the infectious quicksteps of three Dixieland jazz bands. A ballroom at the Commodore Hotel seemed to go through a time warp to the 1930s, as kids in jeans and matrons in long gowns bobbed, swayed and shuffled to the strains of Count Basic and Sy Oliver...
...Sunshine. A few other aspects of the comic's life are new: his steady girl friend Diane Keaton, for instance, the best friend's winsomely sympathetic wife in Play It Again, Sam. He has learned how to relax by playing a competent clarinet with a traditional Dixieland band in public-sans gags. But Allen remains wedded to a demonic schedule. "Woody's life is his work," says Diane. "He is just not a relaxer. I can't imagine him lounging around the pool in the sunshine in that white skin." Admits Woody: "I have to work...
...Dixieland band died down and the airplanes towing banners of encouragement had passed overhead, the hometown heroine went to work. Breaking Billie Jean's serve in the very first game, she took the opening set handily, 6-1. The second set was more of the same, as Chris kept her older opponent running with a maddening array of pinpoint placements, drop shots and lobs and-when an opening came-a two-fisted backhand drive down the line. In the final game, when the tenacious Billie Jean fought back from match point five times, one excited fan yelled...
...time the major civil rights battles began in the Senate, Russell had so much stature-and was so well versed in parliamentary procedure-that he led the Southern forces. "Dick Russell and his Dixieland Band," 19 Senators joined in common cause, managed to delay and obfuscate until cloture finally shut off their filibuster in 1964 and the Civil Rights Act was passed...