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Word: doo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Black and Crazy Blues. And McCann, who prided himself on being as much an entertainer as a pianist, gabs, croons and narrates an off-the-wall encounter with Charlie Parker. Producer Joel Dorn has so far accumulated more than 200,000 hours of ad-lib material, including doo-wop, early rock and classics as well as jazz. The tapes were made mostly by amateurs; the sound, to judge by Night's initial CDs, is crisp and professional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Apr. 29, 1991 | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

DION: BRONX BLUES: THE COLUMBIA RECORDINGS (1962-1965) (Columbia/Legacy). One of the greatest rock voices of any complexion, caught here, in transition, changing from the king of romantic, street-savvy doo-wop to being a kind of gentle bard of urban blues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Mar. 18, 1991 | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

Adam S. Geyer '93 (Helena Handbasket) and Peter Ferren '92 (Dinah Meetcha) are in dispensible roles as Mel's doo-wopping back-up singers, popping up periodically to explain the plot's complexities (we use that word loosely...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: HPT 143 Safari Sagoodi Is Pretty Darn Goodi | 2/21/1991 | See Source »

...first victimized by a cappella music as an innocent high school student. Visits to my school from several campus a cappella groups, from Bowdoin, Columbia, and Yale made me drowsy and nauseous. From the first "doo-wap," I found the music boring and all the songs the same...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: It's Muzak to My Ears | 11/28/1990 | See Source »

...himself? Part of the answer is that he has never had firm convictions on domestic issues; over the years he has altered his stance on abortion, civil rights and even supply-side economics when it was politically expedient to do so. Bush has always regarded domestic policy as "deep doo-doo," not to be stepped in if at all possible. Foreign affairs, on the other hand, he regards as his strongest suit. As Bush acknowledged at a White House press conference last week, "When you get a problem with the complexities that the Middle East has now, and the gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Read My Hips | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

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