Word: donnas
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...Dance Party tour through the snow-covered Midwest. It was a Monday - a school night - but 1,100 teenagers crammed into Clear Lake, Iowa's Surf Ballroom for two sold out shows. They wore blue jeans and saddle shoes and screamed for 17-year-old Richie Valens, whose single "Donna" was about to go gold. Between sets, Holly solicited people to join him on the charter airplane he'd hired to fly to the next show in Moorhead, Minnesota. The musicians had been traveling by bus for over a week and it had already broken down once. They were tired...
...Visitors who make a minimum $50 donation to the school will have their names carved - like recent visitor Donna Karan's - on one of 2,630 bamboo poles used to construct Heart of School, a central library and meeting facility. At 60 ft. tall (18 m), it will be one of the world's largest all-bamboo buildings when completed in March...
...Latino music collection that has in recent years lagged behind collections of African or East Asian musical history. “There’s been a growing interest in Latino music, and this acquisition is an important step in that direction,” said Donna M. Guerra, the curatorial assistant in the archive of world music. Included in the collection are rare recordings of rehearsals and concerts, personal papers, interviews, and books. In addition, campaign posters, newspaper clippings and magazines document Blades’s political activism in Panama. Guerra said that “these rare...
...sentiment from Italian movies, Dino Risi, 91, provided robust entertainment in many genres. Among his 80-some features were 17 starring Vittorio Gassman, most prominently the cynical social fable Il Sorpasso / The Easy Life and the blind-officer-on-a-toot drama Profuma di Donna / Scent of a Woman, remade in Hollywood with Al Pacino. Risi's string of affairs with gorgeous actresses, including Anita Ekberg and Alida Valli, provides the answer to the question: Why do guys become directors...
...nine hours of freshly filmed, high-definition Yule Log merriment, from the office fireplace of former Tribune Co. President Colonel McCormick, accompanied by recordings of classic radio shows - including rarely-heard radio versions of holiday classics A Christmas Carol and It's a Wonderful Life (featuring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed reprising their film roles...