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...personality. His goatee, heavy-black-frame specs and frequent beret became prototypical hepcat mufti. His voice, which sounded like a thunderclap wanting to purr, could be heard on cool novelties like Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac. His cheeks expanded so far past normal size when he played his horn that he looked, on the bandstand, as if he were on exhibit in an aquarium...
...horn. It was as much a trademark as Armstrong's handkerchief. Story goes that in 1953, Dizzy returned to a recording session and found that his trumpet had been sat upon, or fallen upon, or in some way molested. It was bent into a near-perfect 45 degrees angle. He played it anyway and liked what he heard; he used to say he could hear himself better. And that was pretty much the way he was heard, too, from then...
...Horn-rimmed glasses are standard issue.Optional: bow-tie, tweed jacket, corduroy slacks...
...held off on Somalia to avoid accusations of using military muscle for political gain. But Bush, in defending the no-fly zone in southern Iraq, threatened action anyway. Repelling Iraqi aggression was "right." It's more likely that Bush hesitated for the polls' sake and then intervened in the Horn of Africa because he thought historians would like...
...announced so abruptly by George Bush, America's mission to the Horn of Africa is intended to be a quick fix, a jolt of military muscle to make the country safe for humanitarian aid. Once the so-called secure environment for relief operations ordained by last week's Security Council resolution has been achieved, U.S. troops are supposed to hand over their responsibilities to a smaller, traditional force of U.N. peacekeepers, not yet formed or financed. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater even suggested that the U.S. military operation could be over by Inauguration...