Word: harlemization
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...MAMBO KING Raised in Spanish Harlem and trained at Juilliard, Tito Puente fronts his Latin jazz band for more than 50 years. His charismatic, flamboyant performances and masterly playing of the saxophone, congas, bongos and timbales earn him the nickname El Rey--the king--of mambo. Puente is instrumental in defining Latin jazz, and at the time of his death in 2000, he has five Grammys and 119 albums to his credit. He has inspired countless musicians...
...Chandra Levy’s father. More alarming is when the network isn’t able to recognize which of two events is the more significant. CNN interrupted a speech by our current president to bring us live coverage of our former president playing the saxophone in Harlem...
...long novel not so different from his earlier ones, full of polemical subplots involving anarchists in Philadelphia, the prison system and Wall Street. He threw away nearly all of it. "The big socially significant characters were not coming alive," he says. Working in a small writing studio in Harlem, he says, "I literally extracted a more personal book from that one." The book he finally wrote focuses on the inner lives and dismal family dynamic of the Lamberts, a couple of whom were minor characters in the book he abandoned. Alfred, a retired railway-bridge engineer and basement-lab inventor...
...lights that echo the Statue of Liberty. Small tables dot the area and make it feel more like an Italian piazza than a sterile airport food court. What's particularly refreshing is the distinctive food offerings, such as the first-ever airport Sylvia's, a branch of the famous Harlem soul-food restaurant, and Erwin's Glatt Kosher Deli. This airport wants you to visit: the so-called dwell time, the minutes you spend pre- or postflight, is estimated to be a longer-than-average four hours...
...friends to swing among the swells on Martha's Vineyard. There must be some middle ground between these two. Bush is promising to make a few sorties out among the people during August to whip up enthusiasm for his presidency. He should review a tape of Clinton in Harlem to see how it's done...