Word: holidayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that came out of ragtime and came in with the fascinating rhythms of George Gershwin and Jerome Kern. The early singers were "intuitive and homemade," Balliett observes, but their descendants are sophisticated musicians who blend the soft contours of the Bing Crosby crooners with the hard blues of Billie Holiday...
Offstage, Balliett lets the singers ram ble through the big dates and broken marriages of their pasts, reviewing their child hood idols and latter-day saints. Anita Ellis recalls a memorable appearance with Billie Holiday: "I couldn't get over how she changed-from that naked, smoking, tough woman in the dressing room to the cool, motionless, vessel-of-life singer onstage." Joe Turner tells how as a teenager he wheedled his way into singing at a local Kansas City club: "The man who owned the joint . . . asked me how old I was, and I told him twenty...
...program at the Little City Hall ignores St. Paddie; it says the events all commemorate the 203rd anniversary of Evacuation Day. Which brings up an interesting point--only in Boston is St. Patrick's Day a legal holiday. And while making the annual ethnic celebration a city holiday probably wouldn't have been an impossible chore for Boston's Irish pols, there was an easier way. The British, ironically provided the excuse. Redcoats occupied Boston from the start of the revolution until the Americans, head quartered on Cambridge Common, were able to starve them out. The British left under cover...
Just as St. Patrick made his name driving out the snakes, hundreds of South Bostonians have reached prominence by driving out Republicans. For the politicians, March 17 is no holiday--they're hard at work promoting themselves all day long. This St. Patrick's Day will really begin at 10:30 a.m. Saturday when Bill Bulger, president of the State Senate, is the guest of honor at the annual corned beef and cabbage "dinner." Most years the parade follows the dinner, winding slowly through the hills of Southie. This year, though, the 15,000 participants, including Sen. Edward M. Kennedy...
...night, the normally somnolent Ayatullah was visibly agitated and emotional as he asked his countrymen to surrender their weapons. Failing to do so, he declared, was haram (forbidden by their religion). A number of weapons were turned in, but most were not, and fighting continued intermittently. By Thursday, a holiday commemorating the birth of the Prophet Muhammad, the streets of Tehran were free of gun-toting troublemakers. But only until the sun went down. After dark, the sounds of gunfire returned as unidentified rebels fired on various government and private buildings, and sometimes at random, in direct defiance of Khomeini...