Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those were fighting words to outgoing A.B.A. president John J. Curtin Jr. Departing from protocol, Curtin stepped to the microphone to offer an impromptu rebuttal. "Anyone who believes a better day dawns when lawyers are eliminated bears the burden of explaining who will take their place," Curtin declared to cheers from the audience. "Who will protect the poor, the injured, the victims of negligence, the victims of racial discrimination and - the victims of racial violence?" Not mentioned, of course, were the corporations that provide some A.B.A. members with the bulk of their income. Quayle was allowed the final word. "Nobody...
Black ice holds special significance for the students of St. Paul's, the New England prep school which saw the beginnings of ice hockey in America. The glassy ice provides an ideal playing surface, and as a result its infrequent appearance is celebrated with an impromptu school holiday...
...beating on the videotape goes on for long minutes, the suspect-victim unarmed, unresisting, crouched on the ground, the police not acting on some lashing impulse of the moment, but seeming desultory and methodical at the same time. Cops stroll around. It looks like an impromptu social occasion...
Besides the impromptu gatherings, there are plenty of planned ones, too. Nights are spent hanging out at the grill, where those feeling unsatisfied by dinner can buy food ranging from frozen yogurt to cheesesteaks. Movies are frequently shown on the big screen TV in the grill area, often making the JCR a social hotspot at night. And then there are the old standbys: milk and cookies every Sunday night and open houses on Friday afternoons...
...death at 34 and was, unfortunately, widely imitated by his contemporaries. One such was Dean Benedetti, a West Coast jazzman who copied Bird in every way he could, down to and including his own premature death at 34. But Benedetti left behind an extraordinary legacy: a cache of impromptu recordings that he had made of Parker's live performances in 1947-48. Now this long-lost treasure has been rediscovered and issued as a 10-LP or seven-CD boxed set. Though the nine hours of music -- consisting mostly of disembodied Parker solos--can be taxing on the casual listener...