Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Four people are hospitalized after a skirmish between labor leaders and members of black Vietnam veterans' group at a National Caucus of Labor Committee meeting at Phillips Brooks House...
...year-old Dido has music in her family: her brother Rollo, 32, is the leader of the British trip-hop group Faithless. When Dido initially decided to pursue a musical career, Rollo warned her against it. "He basically said, 'Look, there are a million better singers than you in the world,'" says Dido. "He never saw it because he's my brother--and that's fair enough. He's sort of come round to the idea, and of course now he's passionately behind...
There are thousands of paintings by French Impressionists in American collections, public and private; America's infatuation with Impressionism, which began more than a century ago, has never stopped. Yet only one member of the Impressionist group ever visited America, and it wasn't for artistic reasons. Edgar Degas (1834-1917) had relatives in New Orleans. His father Auguste De Gas--who, despite the "De" he affected, was not of noble blood--had married a French-Creole woman from New Orleans, Celestine Musson. She produced three sons and two daughters, of whom Edgar was the oldest. They were all raised...
LEAST DIPLOMATIC Cokie Roberts (3), at Duke University, whose men's basketball team was upset in the NCAA finals: "I must say, it's nice to look out on this football field and see a group of winners...
...belief that music can provide emotional salvation is in short supply in rock 'n' roll these days. Old records by groups like U2 convey the feeling, and so do some recent releases by younger acts like New Radicals. Thankfully, the notion also comes across on the latest CD by the British band Manic Street Preachers. The group offers up big, melodic, cathedral-filling songs that clearly have social and spiritual aspirations beyond just rocking the house: one of the tracks is bluntly titled If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next. A few numbers are a bit limp...