Word: horning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LESLEY STAHL, 35, is telegenic disproof of the premise that girls who wear glasses seldom get studio passes. She has resisted suggestions from her bosses at CBS-and her mother-that she replace her horn-rims with contact lenses. After Stahl's first network stand-up report, her mother complained from Boston: "Sixty million Americans saw you tonight. One of them was my future son-in-law, but he's never going to call you for a date because you wore glasses!" Actually Stahl, who now makes more than $50,000 a year...
...image of the exhibition and the composer's ambling from picture to picture. But until near the final "Hut on Fowl's Leg" and "Great Gate of Kiev," the performance seemed a bit weighted down and torpid in parts. The quick changes of mood in the "Promenades," with the horn, winds and violins heralding a new picture, were well enough evoked. But in certain spots, such as the high-pitched "Il Vecchio Castello," the Orchestra seemed tame...
...After four years as Assistant Interior Secretary, Jack Horton is back on his 10,000-acre ranch in the foothills of Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains. He rises as early as 4 a.m. to tend his 400 Herefords, but also hopes to use his Washington experience as an environmental consultant. Says he: "You owe the world much more than to just go back and lock yourself up on a ranch...
...finest track in this combination of styles, opens with guitars reminiscent of the Fronterizos, renowned exponents of Argentine folk music. Enter the jazz element. Barbieri overlays the backing with a spare yet haunting melody. Someone cries "Hey! Adentro!" and the guitars are the focus of attention before the horn brings in the melody again...
...lines: a professor of Egyptian languages and literature who takes an interest in the problem of the stu-of Meroitic and who possesses some knowledge of Berber or a Cushitic language; a specialist in Ge'ez who can also handle some of the Cushitic or Semitic languages of the Horn; a specialist in Swahili who can handle some other important eastern-central languages of Africa (e.g. Kikuyu); a specialist in Hausa who can handle some of the important languages of western Africa; and a specialist in Zulu, Soth-Tswana, or Shona who can handle some of the important languages...