Word: getz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pesci works his scuzzy Leo Getz character hard to take up the slack, but he's oldish news by now--and so are the film's action sequences, all frantic variations by director Richard Donner on gags we've seen before. New news Chris Rock works harder than anyone else trying to get laughs as a young detective helping the old pros pursue a gang that's smuggling illegal aliens into the country, but he's caught red-handed trying to steal the picture. Get some sneakers, kid. And try whispering...
Connolly's--where patrons once listened to such greats as Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Dexter Gordon and Stan Getz--fell one vote short of being named an official landmark by the Boston Landmark Committee...
Haden put down his professional roots in Los Angeles, winning fame first as a session man, then as creator of two formidable West Coast jazz groups, the Liberation Orchestra and Quartet West. He met Jones three years ago, when both did guest turns on an Abbey Lincoln-Stan Getz album. Then, at a Verve Records anniversary celebration at New York's Carnegie Hall, Haden, with a little trepidation, cornered the dapper pianist backstage, proposing that they do an album of spirituals together. Jones agreed simply by starting to suggest song titles...
Others are recognized through the mass of publicity which the development office puts out to try to focus on the volunteers more. Getz, for example, received the second most pledges of any College Fund fund-raiser and was given credit for his achievement in the fundraising bulletin sent out by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...There is no quid pro quo per se," Getz says. "At Harvard, a donor's place is to [donate], not run the University...