Word: joes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intrepid entrepreneur, Joe Conforte, who runs the Mustang Ranch, a legalized bordello outside Reno, took advantage of the uproar to post a sign at his gates saying: "No more Iranian students will be permitted on these premises until the hostages...
Jenkins is unique among the few top-notch violinists that jazz has produced. Stephane Grappelli and Joe Venuti have been the instrument's two most successful improvisors, each using a fluid instrumental technique that can approach the offhand fluency of a saxophone or trumpet. Jenkins is the most violinistic violinist in improvised music; his effective use of double-stops (two notes bowed together), rapid bowing, and pizzicato techniques places him much closer to the classical violin tradition than any of his predecessors in jazz...
...long-awaited season begins Saturday at Columbia. The meet represents a homecoming of sorts for Crimson mentor Joe Bernal, who graduated from N.Y.U. and who coached in the New York area before coming to Cambridge three years...
Coryell's tactics demand an eagle's vision -and a lion's courage, to wait for the open man while defenders thunder in for the kill. Coryell says of Fouts: "Dan has great peripheral vision." Adds Offensive Coordinator Joe Gibbs. "He's completely oblivious to the rush. He stands there with composure and concentration, with all those guys in front of him hittin' and gruntin...
Their names were enough to make most Americans guffaw: Moonbeam McSwine, Fearless Fosdick, Lonesome Polecat, Joe Btfsplk (pronounced Btfsplk). For 43 years they frolicked across the funny pages lampooning the foibles of the high and mighty and mouthing the pungent politics of their raspy-voiced creator, Al Capp. He called his hillbilly vaudeville Li'l Abner, and it made him a wealthy man, though not an especially happy one. Racked by emphysema and distressed by the social changes he saw around him, Capp abruptly retired in 1977. He took up a reclusive life in Cambridge, Mass., where he died...