Word: horned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harlem during the Depression with Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and Alto-Saxman Charlie ("Bird") Parker. He developed an angular breakaway from conventional jazz that came to be known as bebop and, finally, bop. His asymmetrical ideas had a powerful influence on modern jazz musicians and a whole generation of horn players, but Monk himself lapsed into virtual obscurity in the 1950s. Rescued by a series of inspired recordings with such jazz giants as John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, Monk eventually achieved both celebrity and steady work. But he remained an enigma. He wore skullcaps and dark sunglasses, and during performances, when...
Then there are such historical detritus as F.D.R.'s lap robe; Nazi pilots' socks; a banner from a John L. Sullivan fight; Everett Dirksen's horn-rimmed glasses; a stuffed lion that was the flying partner-when it was alive-of Aviator Roscoe Turner; several white rats, now stuffed, used in a Soviet space shot; leftover Tang from the astronauts; a piece of Plymouth Rock; bricks from China's Great Wall; shards from champagne bottles used to christen battleships; a miniature compass embedded in an acorn from an oak tree that George Washington planted at Mount...
...most successful designers in leather is New Yorker Carol Horn, whose comfortable, stylish clothes are priced on the low end of the scale. Her suede T shirts sell for $210; her most expensive entry is a ruffled suede dress for $322. "People are taking to leather," she says, "because they're responding to something real, the way they respond to 100% wool...
...honks its horn at that moment, and as Malle contrives it, it resounds within the restaurant, as if to resolve the evening's dilemma. Wally and Andre cast their parting shots amicably, and with music from the piano, the spell is ended...
...standards he wrote include Georgia on My Mind, Ole Buttermilk Sky, Lazybones, The Nearness of You and In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening. He also played a laconic, streetwise piano player in a handful of movies, including To Have and Have Not and Young Man with a Horn...