Word: hendrix
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...story ofDavid Heller. During the first week of March 1989,Heller, a first-year teacher in the program,abruptly resigned after a mix-up over Marius'scheduled visit to his class. Marius went to thewrong room, and when Heller returned to the Exposoffice, witnesses say, then-program administratorJulia A. Hendrix erupted at the teacher with noapparent provocation...
...taking back the function of the kiosk, the Square will finally begin to reappropriate the space for itself. Performers will come out of the woodwork--first a timid juggler, then a JFK-Mark-David-Chapman-CIA-Stephen-King conspiracy theorist and a pitiful guitarist who thinks he's Jimi Hendrix...
...burden more lightly on his glorious Symphony or Damn, perhaps because he had already fallen such a far distance. His 1987 Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby demonstrated a surging talent. You could hear Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke in his voice, the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix in his songs. D'Arby quickly got sidetracked from his talent and ensnared in hype, and his second album, full of the kind of brashness that comes from uncertainty, stiffed badly. Symphony or Damn was his last big chance...
...drugs and rock 'n' roll. Drugs have long been viewed as part of the culture of rock music. Jim Morrison. Jimi Hendrix. Live fast, die young. In-a- gadda-da-vida, baby. But throughout the just-say-no '80s, rockers and rappers held their collective breath. When would it be safe to inhale? Now, with the '90s, many musicians feel that the cultural tide has shifted -- so they're going public about marijuana use and celebrating the weed in song lyrics. Once again, pop music is going...
...spent my first year here in Wigglesworth Hall,, where I was daily subjected to the pseudosoprano scales of an indefatigable operatic pan-handler, a saxophonist who seemed to appreciate loudness more than melody and a Jimmy Hendrix wannabe. Many Square-lovers claim that the street music provides charming "local color." It's charming for about a week. After that, it's a powerful trigger for psychosis...