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Commissioner Julius Kelley would disagree. "We needed a black on the commission, and we got a good one," he says. Kelley can afford to be generous. He is living proof that cumulative voting's leg up to minorities is color blind. Like blacks, Chilton's white Republicans were hungry political underdogs. They too "plumped" -- and reaped three commissioners' seats...
...surviving on a monthly total of about$600 in dues and contributions, plus theoccasional more generous donation...
...surviving on a monthly total of about$600 in dues and contributions, plus theoccasional more generous donation...
...Nirvana's unexpected stardom that seemed to eat at him. He appeared unusually tortured by success, even in a profession famous for containing people who are tortured by success. "He was a very bright, sweet, generous and caring individual, perhaps a little too sweet and sensitive for the business he was in," says Michael Azerrad, author of Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana. Danny Goldberg, the former head of Nirvana's management company who now runs Atlantic Records, says, "In all the years I knew him, he had very mixed feelings about being on this planet." Goldberg remembers...
...other cases in modern music of a musician inheriting a musical tradition [tango] growing so moribund in its structure and mannerisms, and growing so stiff in its political implications and social function, who so singlehandedly transformed it into a breathing, complex, sensual and powerful music." Even such generous praise is understated; Piazzolla's impact and importance reach far beyond his work in and influence on tango, moving towards a redefinition of the depths of the emotion that can be reached through music...