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...concert's second half continued the Ellington/Marsalis theme. Obscure Ellington tunes such as "The Giddybug Gallop" and "Anitra's Dance" from the Peer Gynt Suite preceeded the most impressive moment of the evening, "Jack the Bear." Ellington's double bass feature for Jimmy Blanton was competently played by bassist Ben Wolfe. However, the cameo appearance of pianist Marcus Roberts proved to be the highlight of the tune. Roberts stretched the harmonies of his blues choruses with Monkish lines, piano runs reminiscent of Ellington's "Ko-Ko" and an unparalled rhythmic concept. Following Roberts, Marsalis introduced LCJO's vocalist Milt Grayson...
...guests are sentenced to hang for witchcraft. The evil magistrate has tightened the nooses round the hapless damsels' necks and with unimaginable cruelty is teasing his victims by rocking the rickety bench which stands between them and death. But he delays too long, giving the Injuns time to gallop up and save the day by attempting to slaughter all the inhabitants, starting, as luck would have it, with the malicious magistrate. Amid all the confusion of the attack, Joffe manages to sneak a cloyingly happy ending past the logic of the distracted narrative...
...After passing one of them, I lucked into a tutee relationship with then editorial chair (and now esteemed professor) Tom Kuhn. The joy of being night editor and turning out what I thought was a handsome and newsy issue induced me regularly at 2 p.m. to run at full gallop through the Yard to my room in Thyer...
...heart attack; in Montignac, France. During an outing in 1940, Ravidat eased down a hole in the ground and made a discovery that transformed humanity's memory of itself-the Lascaux caves, with their remarkably preserved 18,000-year-old images of brilliantly colored creatures at full gallop. In later years, Ravidat served as a Lascaux guide...
...formulate a report on the status of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy of the Department of Defense in 1995. "Once that report has been presented and reviewed some decision will be made to either continue with ROTC or to sever ties with ROTC," said Sarah E. Gallop, assistant for government relations...