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...teenager. Since moving to the Big Apple, he has continued to play occasional gigs at local night spots and in the studio. Last month G.H.B. Records released Tom's seventh album, New Orleans Reunion, a collection of traditional blues and standards that he recorded with a clarinet-drum-piano trio...
...house these days. Not just any broker can perform one, so many sellers are turning to an expert: St. Joseph. Religious-goods merchants in several cities have been surprised at the brisk sales of St. Joseph statues, which homeowners bury in their yards in the belief the saint will drum up some business. The hopeful sellers inter the statues headfirst, with the feet toward heaven...
Recently, I had the upsetting experience of reading Joshua M. Sharfstein's ridiculous and unfair allegations about Harvard football players. At first glance, one might think that Sharfstein was attempting to drum up support for the team, a laudable effort for a school newspaper. However, by the conclusion of his article, he had successfully degraded a large number of student-athletes...
...shot, please. Or, more appropriate for the time (the mid-1950s) and place (the environs of the University of Chicago), a wry smile and a knowing bob of the head above a woolly black turtleneck. Nothing as show biz as drum punctuation would suit an enterprise as groundbreaking, mind teasing and -- all right, all right -- history making as Chicago's Compass Theater...
During a recent trip to the Ural Mountains to drum up support for perestroika, Gorbachev commented to associates that for the first time in his many forays into the heartland, no one had asked him about U.S.-Soviet relations or the threat of global war. The good news, perhaps, was that everyone knows the danger has diminished. The bad news, however, might be that everyone is too obsessed with the scarcity of dairy products, poultry and apartments to notice...