Word: du
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like Motown was at the time, the Minneapolis Sound (not to be mistaken with alternative rock's Minneapolis Sound of the Replacements and Husker Du, among others) was new and fresh. Powerful bass, a driving funk beat, suggestive lyrics and occasional guitar riffs propelled the Sound to the top with fans and critics both, a rare feat...
...Velasquez, El Greco and Ribera, Zurbaran was the best painter the so-called Golden Age of Spanish painting produced, but his work has never been seen in depth in America. Now, in one of those big transatlantic double acts the Met does so well, in cahoots with the Musee du Louvre in Paris, we have a show of 71 paintings organized by Jeannine Baticle of the Louvre. From this panoramic exposure a new Zurbaran emerges -- both stronger and weaker, more intense and yet more prone to hackwork, than one had imagined...
...many things as you possibly can, so maybe we can get her a boyfriend." He loves practical jokes. Sheldon Leonard, the producer who gave Cosby his first TV role on I Spy, chuckles at the memory of his arrival last year at the chic Grand Hotel du Cap on the French Riviera, where he was to meet Cosby, who vacations there each summer. Checking into his room, Leonard ordered the bellman, who had his head ducked down, to put away the luggage. The distinctly un-French reply: ! "Yassuh, boss. I be puttin' it up." It was Cosby in the bellman...
...system dominated for some 30 years by William Schaefer, Baltimore's respected former white mayor, who was elected Governor of Maryland last November. Instead, Schmoke, a Rhodes scholar, is out of Yale, Harvard Law School and Oxford. Last week he defeated a black politician from the old school, Clarence ("Du") Burns, 69, who had climbed through the ranks to become city council president and Schaefer's interim replacement as mayor. Having won the primary in a city where 88% of the voters are Democrats, Schmoke next month will almost certainly become the first black to be elected mayor of Baltimore...
However familiar such conflicts may seem to millions of working couples, they rarely used to crop up in politics. This year is different. Elizabeth Dole, Hattie Babbitt, Jeanne Simon and Elise du Pont are all lawyers. Jill Biden and Kitty Dukakis both teach. Tipper Gore is a published author. Dole, whom some see as a future presidential contender in her own right, has the most vexing dilemma of all. "I think there is a sense that her choice will send a signal," says Republican Pollster Linda Duvall. "Until now, we've never seen a situation where the wife is just...