Word: earle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back to a precolonial Africa uninfluenced by European rulers. In one scene, a group of pallbearers carries a coffin from door to door so that the obeah, or medicine man, can ask if someone in the house was involved in the death. "Death is rarely considered natural," Actor James Earl Jones says as narrator of the film, "and certain people are divined to be responsible." If the coffin tilts toward a particular house during the ritual procession, the owner is considered guilty and must provide gifts to the survivors...
...Democratic state assemblymen elected in 1974, and the CTA is now rated, behind the oil lobby, as the most generous campaign contributor in the state. Indiana's state association is described by politicos there as being aggressive and in the last election helped defeat Congressman Earl Landgrebe, a Republican who had consistently voted against education bills...
...greats?and all tomorrow's stars?are filling the nights with once and future jazz. A season's billboard reads like an arpeggio of jazz excitement: Teddy Wilson, Benny Carter, Charles Mingus, Count Basie, Thelonius Monk, Milt Hinton, Cootie Williams, Maynard Ferguson, Buddy Rich, Stan Getz, Earl Hines, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie. They are playing blues, bop, jazz rock, honky tonk and ethereal moondust. The newest jazz center is in SoHo lofts, where young audiences gather to hear warm, contrapuntal, richly melodic explorations. "We never repeat," says Sam Rivers, founder of Studio Rivbea. "For three hours straight, ideas keep flourishing...
...Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty,* decided to test Cook by inviting him to dinner and describing the Resolution's new assignment. Despite the fact that his wife Elizabeth was pregnant with their third child. Cook immediately volunteered. Since then, he has been gathering adventurous young crewmen like Astronomer James King, former Dartmouth Student John Ledyard, and Sailing Master William Bligh. Says Cook: "I embark on as fair a prospect as I can wish...
...earl, a passionate gambler, dislikes rising from the gaming table for the sake of a meal, so he has devised the practice of placing a slice of meat between two pieces of bread, a dish sometimes known as a "sandwich...