Word: jethro
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...mediocrity can take hold when an agenda begins to get stale. The elections were a clear referendum on his leadership. He seemed to ignore criticism and was ineffective in achieving any of his goals, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Republican Party paid the price on Election Day. Jethro Singer Santa Monica, California...
...mediocrity can take hold when an agenda begins to get stale. The elections were a clear referendum on his leadership. He seemed to ignore criticism and was ineffective in achieving any of his goals, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Republican Party paid the price on Election Day. Jethro Singer Santa Monica, California, U.S. Bush's political isolation is not his fault. The central challenge in dealing with militant Islam has always been the tentative resolve of most Western nations to defend their interests and values. Those countries are unwilling, unable or - increasingly - afraid to do so. Europe, in particular...
...peril. An eight-mate, endlessly-outfitted ensemble that defies genre, the group left no instruments unplayed. What began the night as a guitar, a bass, some drums, some voices, and a piano evolved at odd points to include a triangle, a Casio keyboard, a trumpet, a flute (total Jethro-style), a cowbell, a casaba, the string of things, a Powerbook, a breath-activated toy keyboard, many hands clapping, and all the crowd laughing.As the evening turned to night, the songs sped, the energy surged. Eyebrows raised up higher on sweat-soaked foreheads when the band began to switch instruments during...
...bound up in a single, sometimes peripheral, instrument, sound or refrain. This is, in parlance, the gimmick. The gimmick defines the band, makes it unique, is its lifeblood—without the gimmick, the band cannot musically subsist in any recognizable form. Familiar gimmicks include (or, better, should include) Jethro Tull’s flute, Jimi Hendrix’s Arbiter Fuzz Face, The Police’s delay pedal and Peter Frampton’s Talkbox—all part and parcel with their performers’ legacy...
...also chatted and shared cigarettes before a British major ordered an end to the fraternizing. DIED. JOHN WALTERS, 63, witty bbc radio and TV personality with cutting-edge musical tastes who produced the influential John Peel radio show Top Gear in the 1960s and '70s, which gave debuts to Jethro Tull, King Crimson and Tyrannosaurus Rex; in Oxted, U.K. Prior to joining the Beeb he played trumpet with the Alan Price Set, founded by the former Animals keyboardist. DIED. FANNY BRENNAN, 80, French-born American surrealist painter whose childhood was spent among the international artistic circles of 1920s Paris...