Word: duke
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...CHARLES DUKE became an evangelical Christian six years after his 1972 moonwalk. Today he speaks to religious groups around the world...
...more electrifying than ever. Now, at 76, Horne is back with her most ambitious recording in years, and it's a stunner. The lady has soul, and it's no longer on ice. We'll Be Together Again is a collection of 16 songs written by composers ranging from Duke Ellington to Kris Kristofferson. The record is really a tribute to one particular composer, though. The liner notes call the album "a prayer -- a private, sacred promise to a lost love." That love is for Horne's great friend Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington's composing partner, who died...
...been the subject of at least 20 criminal investigations and has twice beat charges that he tried, while out of office, to rig the state's program to certify hospitals -- pocketing $1.9 million in the process. During Edwards' 1991 campaign, a closely watched race against former Klansman David Duke, one of his supporters' favorite bumper stickers read, Vote for the Crook. It's Important...
...Glyndebourne is changing. Last week, amid fireworks and the blessing of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, the company opened a new theater that seats 1,200 -- the original seated 830 -- and that includes about 60 places to be sold at $15. The design is spare, even modest, making no attempt to impose itself on the landscape, and the acoustics are much better than those of the old house. At the opening, the company tried to keep gloating to a minimum. That must have been hard. The management had, after all, opened the only new opera house in England since...
First, over spring break, the Crimson battled nobody in a 13-6 loss to seventh-ranked Duke in Raleigh, N.C., a loss which ironically only seemed to affirm the team's top-20 status...