Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...music idol; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. A self-taught musician who briefly practiced law, Carmichael was captivated by the syncopated rhythm and improvisational style of Jazz Great Bix Beiderbecke. Carmichael's simple, unpretentious ballads began catching the public's ear in 1931 with his first hit, Star Dust. The more than 50 standards he wrote include Georgia on My Mind, Ole Buttermilk Sky, Lazybones, The Nearness of You and In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening. He also played a laconic, streetwise piano player in a handful of movies, including To Have and Have Not and Young...
...from expanded versions of television news shows and in part from text transmission over cable T.V. The demise of many an afternoon paper was directly linked to the rise of television, and some pundits figured it would only be a matter of time until the morning editions bit the dust as well...
...first tip-off should come from the book's dust jacket, which features two Catholic clergymen praising the book's analysis. The Catholic Church, of course, hardly has a reputation for its graceful acceptance of criticism. Kind words from people who were still publishing an Index of acceptable books after World War II should perk a few suspicions. And as it turns out, Nichols is an avowedly sympathetic critic, very much intrigued by the faith, and himself married to a Catholic. He is on good terms with much of the Vatican, and indeed many of his anecdotes begin with...
After the bombing run and a tactical air-firepower demonstration, some 90 U.S. and Egyptian paratroopers charged through the dust, firing machine guns and antitank rockets before "securing" the site. Afterward, the U.S. forces hailed the Egyptians with cries of "Mazal lat!" (paratroopers), while the Egyptians responded with the traditional shout of their American counterparts: "Airborne...
...essence of biography is selectiveness; even the most uneventful lives contain enough to fill a library. In this case, the tendancy toward inclusiveness results in a 750-page tome which, we are assured on the dust jacket, is merely the first volume...