Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After all, contemporary acclaim is wonderful. Peggy Lee, the jazz singer, once fielded the question "Who is the best jazz singer?" as cleanly as Brooks Robinson reaching over third base: "Do you mean besides Ella?" Such is the esteem in which Wayne Gretzky and Larry Bird are held now. By common agreement, each is the best in his sport, and something more than that. They are changing the elements if not the definition of a star. In Gretzky's and Bird's gloved and bare hands, hockey and basketball appear to improve even as games, seem to become not only...
...called Main Street about a town he dubbed Gopher Prairie, which no one ever seriously doubted was inspired by Sauk Centre. Gopher Prairie was drawn as smug, suspicious and stuck in its ways, and that was a liberating vision for a newly urban America about to plunge into the jazz age. Main Street became a metaphor for a certain kind of narrow-minded, self-satisfied, credulous America; Lewis' Babbitt and Elmer Gantry completed the picture. In 1930, when Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Sauk Centre's role as national small-town bellwether...
...University doesn't give bands a lot of encouragement. They will help classical musicians out a lot more than rock or jazz," Peasley said...
...giant record companies have grown so enamored of the successful rock market that they have passed up many smaller pockets of popularity in jazz, folk and urban-teen music. Like boutiques, the tiny firms cater to special tastes and keep overhead low. Major labels sometimes spend as much as $500,000 to record and promote an album, which means they must sell at least 200,000 disks to make a profit. The independents can earn money on record sales of 1,000 or less...
...Harvard undergraduate performers are a diverse and interesting bunch. While some seem almost saw, though not ineffective, others have obvious balletic or jazz training. Alan Shaw, as the shadow in "Kid and Shadow," tenses Eduardo Fuentes with both his dazzline footwork and his impish grin. Throughout the program, Stanford Makishi exudes charisma with every step, strut and slide. In both "Classroom" and "Library Tour" Catherine Musinsky is particularly expressive. As her face registers the gamut of feelings from surprise to confusion, she dances with a soft, musical bouyancy. While CityStep is partially a showcase for these indented Harvard dancers...