Word: horning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pretending to have a test is worse than having no test at all," says Bernie Horn, director of state legislation for Handgun Control, Inc. "You have to do more to get a driver's license." But Kevin Frailey, a member of the Basic Pistol Safety Review Board, says, "It wasn't supposed to stop a person from purchasing a firearm." On the contrary: in April and May alone, Detroit issued 530 handgun permits. In all of 1990 it gave...
...BECHET: THE COMPLETE VICTOR MASTER TAKES (Bluebird). THE COMPLETE SIDNEY BECHET ON BLUE NOTE (available from Mosaic, 35 Melrose Place, Stamford, Conn. 06902). Born in New Orleans in 1897, clarinetist and soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet was one of the most talented and influential jazz musicians who ever blew a horn. As Louis Armstrong did for the trumpet, Bechet turned the soprano sax into a powerful solo voice. If Armstrong went on to achieve greater fame, Bechet had the more interesting life: affairs with Josephine Baker, Bessie Smith and Tallulah Bankhead; deportation from Britain; gunfights in Paris; and finally, ascension...
...measure him by his sax, Joshua Shedroff '91 is a heavyweight musician. His "horn," nearly old enough to be his father, perfectly fits Shedroff's description of "hip and delacquered...
...never took my horn home," he confesses. "I didn't really start playing jazz until I got out here." Although his high school jazz band won state competitions in California, Shedroff ascribes their success to that fact that "we were a little bit less clueless than the rest of them...
Investments ranging from art to real estate are suffering from depression nowadays, but the bidding for elk horn is still going strong. Boy Scouts in Jackson, Wyo., who each year auction off the antlers shed by bull elk at the nearby National Elk Refuge, earlier this month collected a total of $76,177, or about $11.20 per lb. The price per pound has been rising about 50 cents annually, thanks in part to Asian bidders who can sell ground elk horn for as much as $300 per oz. because of its purported aphrodisiac and medicinal qualities. But this year Korean...