Word: gig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advise someone not to take a record deal for bad money and bad royalty rates, or a gig for a little money, if they can't pay their phone bill or buy food. People will take advantage of people who are hungry...If you're a junkie and you need the money, you'll do a record for $200. But a record is forever...
...City jazzmen have learned how to deal with the disappointments of the intervening years; when they get together, they share joy, humor, and open affection. Jazz fans already know about the tragedies of Kansas City--how Charlie Parker died an addict, destitute and disillusioned at 35, how a disastrous gig with the U.S. Army ravaged Lester Young's unique and delicate personality. Bitter recollections of these stories would not touch anyone not already familiar with them...
...enough when California courts ordered Novelist Gwen Davis and her publisher, Doubleday, to pay $75,000 last April to Hollywood Psychologist Paul Bindrim. He said he was defamed by Touching, Davis' 1971 novel involving an encounter group whose gig is communal nudity in warm pools. Now Davis, 45, feels doubly wronged: Doubleday has sued her for some $138,000, which includes legal costs, the money Bindrim won and interest. Several authors' groups and a number of writers, among them Irving Wallace, Gore Vidal and Joan Didion, have criticized the publisher for turning on one of its authors...
February, 1978: Disillusion--I had my Beanpot gig down now. My brother, a freshman with brother, a freshman with sophomore standing in Beanpot Appreciation, arrived with me at the Garden at 4:30, 90 minutes before the start of the Harvard-Northeastern opener. We played pinball (they still have one of those great old baseball machines in the lobby of North Station, on which Boston Garden sits), copped a few quarter-pounders across the street, watched the scalpers set up shop. Setting the proper example was important when your team was defending champion...
...head to hear Ol' Blue Eyes warble The Coffee Song and The Girl from Ipanema along with his golden oldies while they dined on lobster salad, beef heart and French champagne at the opulent new Rio Palace Hotel. But as usual the boy from Hoboken did the gig his way. Flying down to Rio with a surprise fellow traveler, Spiro Agnew-"I'm here on business" muttered the former Veep-Sinatra helicoptered to the hotel, shouldered his way through adoring throngs, and thereafter ventured out of his $750-a-day suite only for rehearsals and performances. Sniffed...