Word: downes
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For the past 18 years, with rare exceptions, Woody Allen has spent every Monday night on this bandstand. He even skipped the 1978 Academy Awards, where he won an Oscar for Annie Hall, in order to play his regular gig in midtown Manhattan. Why does a man who has had...
Woody goes after that sound in two ways. First, by using a wide open mouthpiece and a very hard reed -- a Rico Royale No. 5 -- which provides a lot of volume but requires cast-iron lips to play. (Benny Goodman once borrowed Woody's clarinet for a sit-in and...
There is nothing unique about any of this, of course, except for the way Jones writes about it and sings it. In Flying Cowboys, her first album since 1984's The Magazine, she sets down a kind of mystical confessional, full of allusive autobiography and reflective nonchalance. It has the...
Atomic clocks are the world's most accurate timepieces and have important applications in navigation and communication systems. These clocks have also been used to make direct measurements of continental drift, coordinate astronomical observations and test the ability of earth's gravity to slow down time. (It does so at...
Ralph David Abernathy was Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest adviser from the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott that sparked the civil rights movement to the Memphis motel where King was slain. He cradled the dying King in his arms and succeeded him as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference...