Word: grew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lights went down and four of Benny's jazz sextet came out. The couple in the balcony did not look relieved. Bass player Percy Heath started plucking his big fiddle. The audience grew quiet. The guitarist, Cal Collins, jazzed in and out of the bass-line. A few heads in the audience nodded. Then pianist John Bunch took it alone for a little while, his hands roaming the keyboard like dancing spiders. The audience listened. Bunch stopped and drummer Connie Kay toyed with the beat. A few heads started bobbing. Then Kay stopped and all four jumped in. Heath plucked...
Bernstein was assisted by Reporter-Researcher Heyden White, daughter of Theodore White, TIME'S correspondent in China from 1939 to 1945, and co-author of Thunder Out of China (1946), a prescient report on the eventual Communist takeover. Heyden White, who grew up hearing about China from her father, was enthralled by Witke's insights: "We can now learn Chiang Ch'ing's own version of what was happening during those turbulent times...
...India, which lived for 19 months with sharply curtailed civil liberties, the campaign has been surprisingly free, with a minimum of violence. But concern grew among opposition leaders when officials in Delhi ordered some 200,000 central reserve police and members of the paramilitary border-security force to the countryside-a week before the elections-officially to maintain law and order. As Janata leaders quickly noted, their mere presence may inhibit efforts to get out the opposition vote...
Since you are eager to know about my past, I can tell you briefly," she began. "I grew up in the old society and had a miserable childhood. Li Chin was the first of several names she would use before taking Chiang Ch'ing [meaning Azure River, because of her fondness for rivers and because azure "excels blue," a color she loved] her name in the community of Communism. She had numerous brothers and sisters-how many she would not say-the youngest of them at least a dozen years older than she was. Her father [a wheelwright...
...Benton, screenwriter and director, does a lot of borrowing, from both classic and more recent detective flicks, but does his cribbing in style. The actors, meanwhile, are heavily, and affectingly, into themselves: particularly the kharma and vibrations-obssessed Tomlin. With the same L.A. backdrop that the great Chandler stories grew out of, this one proves as well-oiled as the barrel on a Smith and Wesson Model 19 357 Magnum...