Word: guests
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Classes will be interspersed with guest lecturers, such as former Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis and Program Chair Mickey Edwards...
Well, what is a hero? When finally released with other POWS in 1973, McCain was welcomed home, all right (he leaned forward on his crutches and thanked Richard Nixon for everything including the Christmas bombing that had rained all around the "Hanoi Hilton" while he was a guest there), but McCain's was not a feel-good denouement. A rotten script. One of the lessons of Vietnam was that political context counts--that it may, in fact, be everything. Boys who went off to Vietnam with John Wayne movies screening in their minds returned to Deer Hunter America...
Haden put down his professional roots in Los Angeles, winning fame first as a session man, then as creator of two formidable West Coast jazz groups, the Liberation Orchestra and Quartet West. He met Jones three years ago, when both did guest turns on an Abbey Lincoln-Stan Getz album. Then, at a Verve Records anniversary celebration at New York's Carnegie Hall, Haden, with a little trepidation, cornered the dapper pianist backstage, proposing that they do an album of spirituals together. Jones agreed simply by starting to suggest song titles...
...prosecution is concluding this case. We might just see a verdict months before Court TV's sweeps week! What then are we as a nation, and the press (as a multi-million dollar entertainment industry) to do, without the Bloody Glove, the White Ford Bronco and Kato the House Guest? What are we to do, scanning our 57 channels, without the live broadcasts from CNN and Court TV, without the nightly updates on the networks, without Kato co-hosting the USA Network's "Up-All-Night...
Mostly he has been doing that overseas. Simultaneously, Nagano is music director in Lyons, France; leader of the venerable Halla Orchestra in Manchester, England; and associate principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. As flamboyant on the podium as his mentor Seiji Ozawa but far more probing and analytical, Nagano wields his baton with the alan of a lion tamer cracking a whip. His lank, dark hair flies, his arms soar skyward, and a broad smile crosses his face: the laid-back, almost diffident surfer dude is suddenly transformed into the happiest dervish in the world...