Word: funke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other speakers included Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson, First Vice President of the Radcliffe Alumni Association Jane Tewksbury '74, newly-appointed Dean of Radcliffe Educational Programs Tamar March, and Radcliffe Union of Students Co-presidents Corinne E. Funk '97, who is a Crimson executive, and Megan L. Peimer...
RELEASED. RICK JAMES, 44, grandmaster of funk (Super Freak); after serving two years and 23 days of a five-year sentence; in Folsom, California. In 1994 James was convicted of assaulting a woman, holding her hostage and giving her cocaine...
...single area in a single city; the tickets are pricey, and the shows often appeal to glitzy, tuxedo-wearing values from a seemingly bygone era. But two of Broadway's biggest recent hits, the rock opera Rent and the tap-dance epic Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk, in some respects stand in opposition to all that. Rent is about fighting landlords and hiv; Noise/Funk is about struggling with the Man, racist cab drivers and whitewashed history. Still, despite the populist appeal of these shows, you can see them in only one place, in one city; and--with...
Irritating. Endlessly irritating. The increasingly unintelligible, high-pitched whine of these wretched bugs cavorting in toilets and a jock strap is enough to cure anyone complaining of sanity. Sure, a barber shop quartet starring disease-carrying vermin rates high on anyone's cuteness scale, but after a funk number, or a gospel number, or the film's opening chorus...one just wants to crawl under a carpet and take a quiet...
HARRY CONNICK JR., who turns up on screen in Independence Day as a drawling, alien-hunting fighter pilot, also has a new album, Star Turtle, which just happens to have an extraterrestrial theme. The jazz-funk record describes a cosmic terrapin's landing in New Orleans and his evening of club crawling with local lounge lizards. But those looking for a link between movie and album are lost in space, Connick says. "The two are unrelated. I'm not into turtles or space stuff." The seeming coincidence can be chalked up to that secret something known as cross-promotion...