Word: gigging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With frilly frocks, cloche hats and new names--Curtis becomes 'Josephine,' and Lemmon 'Daphne'--in place, they join an all girl band with a gig in far-away Florida. This is no ordinary all-girl band, for it features Marilyn Monroe, at her ripest and most Iuscious, as Sugar Kane, a chanteuse and clarinet player with a weakness for liquor and rakes...
...implications of the 32-bit memory model is increased efficiency. Applications are no longer constrained by the cramped 64K segment limit. Instead, rewritten applications have a continuous ("flat") view of a four gig memory world. And therein lies the catch. Applications must be revised--which can be a few minutes of bit twiddling or many months of code pounding--to be savvy in the 32-bit world...
...performing in the street. "Ifyou spend time on the street, you are able tointeract with people you wouldn't otherwise." Lastweek, when playing in a club in the Square, Coatsnoticed a homeless man whom she had met whileplaying in the Square. "He saw my flier and showedup for the gig! I felt so good; it must have beenhell for him to come and buy a ticket. I had beenthinking about him recently: whether he had spentthe winter in the Square, if he was all right...
...character, Moloney says, "like chapters in a book." The Rolling Stones, who did The Rocky Road to Dublin, a roistering waltz with an impish touch of Satisfaction thrown in, showed up with their own bar. Moloney's tight charts soon surrendered to jam-session chaos. At gig's end, the genial mob adjourned to a pub and quaffed Guinness until 6 in the morning...
...numbers affirm, lots of people liked. Forever dabbling in popular music, Branford Marsalis offered up his version of this recipe last year with his latest band's self-titled CD, "Buckshot LeFonque." On leave from "The Tonight Show," this band is now on tour and played a well-attended gig at the Roxy last Wednesday night...