Word: goodman
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...long run the most significant advances may come from learning how the cardiovascular system works on a cellular and chemical level. Says Goodman...
June 21, the first day. Three activists, James Chancy, 21. Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner, 24, a Black and two whites, left their homes in the North to journey into America's belly. Full of hope, not sure they would come out alive, they wanted to change the world. But there was no place for their dreams underneath the sweltering Southern sun. Trapped amidst a fusion of heat and hate, their visions collided with the granite realities of the "Southern Way of Life...
DIED. Edward (Eddie) Sauter, 66, trumpet-playing jazz composer and arranger who during the 1930s and 1940s contributed deft, harmonically venturesome scores to many top swing bands, notably that of Benny Goodman (Clarinet á la King, Benny Rides Again), then teamed up with fellow Arranger Bill Finegan during the 1950s to form the innovative Sauter-Finegan orchestra, which used unusually diverse instrumentation to recast such tunes as Moonlight on the Ganges, April in Paris and The Doodletown Fifers; of a heart attack; in Nyack...
What lends the role immense emotional conviction is the performance of young Lisa Goodman. She is like a natural force-sun, wind or rain. Right now, it looks as if her future is written in the stars...
Benny enlists for World War II, as bombs drop and people dance to Benny Goodman's "Sing Sing Sing." He plays a piano which remains in an otherwise demolished town and a German soldier arises from the rubble. Benny tries to soothe him with a German song. The soldier says "Danke" and proceeds to gun him down. Those nasty Krauts! Those poor, great musicians! Sigh! Gasp! Weep! Once again, comic book emotions don't jibe with the attempted realism...