Word: horning
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Peggy S. Chen and Dara Horn contributed to the reporting of this story...
...sorry, but it's hardly a "diplomatic coup" when you bomb the hell out of people and they finally do what you tell them to do. I'm absolutely not taking sides, but semantics can be dangerous. Remember back when the Vietnamese people were being "pacified"? DARRELL HORN Winnipeg, Manitoba...
...Leonard Horn thinks the world of Miss America is fine as is. "I'm sick and tired of people not understanding the value of this program," he fumes. "In a world that has nothing but troubles, this is something pretty goddam good." Horn means pretty goddam wholesome, but he's right. Miss America is good--if you remember that it's a once-a-year TV show that allows viewers to make bar bets on the status of young womanhood. The pageant is good for drama and giggles on a Saturday night. Nestled on the September schedule amid the Jerry...
What made Coltrane great? For some it was his sheer lung power and gale-wind force. "'Trane was the loudest, fastest saxophonist I've ever heard...he was possessed when he put that horn in his mouth," said trumpeter Miles Davis, who made about a dozen albums with him. For others it was his highly textured "sheets of sound," a rapid-fire, rhythmic attack that conjured up aural images of runaway trains, meteor showers and volcanic eruptions. Still others point to Coltrane's importance in bringing African and Eastern influences to jazz and helping bridge the worlds of jazz...
Born in North Carolina, Coltrane began his career as a horn man in Philadelphia R.-and-B. bands in the 1940s. During much of the '50s, his life followed an all-too-familiar pattern-the broke and brooding jazz musician who turns to booze and drugs. Yet in 1957 he kicked drugs cold turkey at his mother's house, subsisting only on water and a new-found religious zeal...