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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning-news ratings, and has been for nearly four years. Yet its margin over ABC's Good Morning America has been shrinking. For the past two weeks, Today has led by only 0.4 of a rating point, and it has fallen to second place in the key demographic group of women ages 25 to 54. "There were a lot of people who thought the show was a little stale," says an NBC executive, "and that maybe it's when you're on top that you should do something about...
...Jazz and Heritage Festival. One night they both sat in on a jam session at Bonaparte's Retreat, a smoky riverfront club on Decatur Street. Last year, when Sancton started playing at the Cajun, a Manhattan night spot, he discovered that his pianist occasionally filled in with Woody's group at Michael's Pub. The pianist later told Allen about Sancton's return to the bandstand. "I met him in 1971," the filmmaker responded. "Do you think he remembers...
...effort to get even closer to the music he loves, Woody has been quietly rehearsing with a group of more New Orleans-oriented musicians for the past year or so. He remains vague about his ultimate plans for the group, but banjoist Davis says there is talk of booking it in a jazz club one night a week, and there have been feelers from several European jazz festivals. The tapes are always rolling during the rehearsals, moreover, so there is a chance that the sessions could ultimately produce something Woody has long resisted: a record featuring him on clarinet...
Panah Huseynov, 32, a member of the directorate of the Azerbaijani Popular Front, is seated at a desk in the former schoolhouse that serves as the group's new headquarters. He is listening to an Azerbaijani refugee from Armenia describe how he and his family were expelled from their home last November. "I was thrown from my house, beaten," the man says. "I lived off weeds, anything I could find." As Huseynov shakes his head in anger, the refugee continued, "They want to cut us up like sheep. But we'll burn them first...
...nationalist inroads are most pronounced in predominantly Muslim Azerbaijan. The Popular Front, formed by a group of intellectuals less than a year ago, was initially considered a fringe group by the local Communist leadership. But then the front began to stage stunning demonstrations of grass-roots support, including a rally in the capital of Baku that drew some 300,000 protesters and a crippling rail blockade of neighboring Armenia. Finally Azerbaijan's Communist leaders officially recognized the nationalist political organization, and acceded to virtually its entire agenda. In a special session of the republic's supreme soviet three weeks...