Word: duked
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...Thomas Pickering took 41 official U.S. observers, including Senators Pete Wilson of California and John Chafee of Rhode Island and a group of Congressmen, around to watch the balloting. Said Chafee: "Anybody who looks at this and fails to be impressed is just immune to sensitivity." Agreed Angier Biddle Duke, a Democrat who had served as Ambassador to El Salvador in 1952-53: "The U.S. spent chicken feed here, and in return for that investment we have seen El Salvador take a quantum leap forward in its democratic process. Americans can take pride in helping El Salvador take its place...
...possible. So to honor his work in such films as Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and his own favorite, Lonely Are the Brave, the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City inducted Kirk Douglas, 67, as its newest celluloid cowpoke, joining the legendary likes of John Wayne. The Duke might have been amused. After Douglas portrayed the eccentric painter Vincent Van Gogh. Wayne asked him, "Why did you play that weak, sniveling character?" Replied Douglas: "I'm an actor." Warned the Duke: "Yeah, well, don't let me catch you playing a role like that again...
Basie was not the compositional innovator that another of jazz's crowned heads, Duke Ellington, was, nor an instrumental virtuoso on the order of the Earl, "Fatha" Hines. Rather, the Count's talent lay in his knack for organizing the tightest, swingingest bands in the land; populating them with some of the best sidemen ever to grace a dance floor or a recording studio, including Tenor Sax Player Lester Young, Trumpeter Buck Clayton, Drummer Jo Jones and Blues Singer Jimmy Rushing; and later backing the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra. Although his elliptically eloquent, spare style...
Throughout his career, Basie was constantly being compared to Ellington. Typically, his modesty precluded such notions. Once, when the Basie and Ellington orchestras combined for a recording, the Duke asked Basie to solo in Take the "A" Train. "You know what I did? I ran for the door," said Basie. But he could always look back with pride at one night in Kansas City in 1936, when the two bands battled for the first time. As Rushing recalled, the Count outswung the Duke...
Among the three main Democratic candidates, the front runner is Robert Krueger, who came within 12,000 votes of defeating Tower in 1978. His style is aloof and intellectual: a Shakespearean scholar with a doctoral degree from Oxford, Krueger was once a dean at Duke University. Conservative Congressman Kent Hance, with his good-ole-boy demeanor, plays up the contrast between the elegant Krueger and him self. "I'm a Texan," he drawls. "I think like a Texan and I'll vote like a Texan." Battling Krueger for the liberal vote is State Senator Lloyd Doggett, a consumer...