Word: landmarking
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...SAID EVERYTHING LIKE SHE meant it, and she sang it as she lived it. "I'm telling you, me and my old voice, it just go up a little bit and come down a little bit," Billie Holiday says during a rehearsal interlude on this landmark set. "It's not legit. I do not got a legitimate voice." True enough. But Billie Holiday changed every notion of legit -- twisted it right around into such a newfangled shape that her silken, serpentine style became the touchstone for all jazz singing. She was, by herself, the new tradition. Others followed, and some...
...refusal to reconsider the repeal of the Guam law, the majority opinion cited the argument of "undue burden" to attack the legality of preventing women from having abortions. The justices lifted this argument from last summer's Casey v. Planned Parenthood ruling that fundamentally upheld 1973's landmark Roe v. Wade decision...
...Juan Jose Junquera y Mato (Rizzoli; $125). Pre-Christian Rome, the Muslim conquest, the age of Christian Kings, the Napoleonic era, the modern epoch -- Spanish style is long and wide enough to embrace all periods. This landmark book covers every significant design. Its descriptions are brief, but Roberto Schezen's photographs speak volumes...
BLAME FOR THE SAVINGS AND LOAN FIASCO FALLS not just on executives of the thrift institutions but also on accountants and lawyers who closed their eyes to clients' shenanigans. So says the U.S. government, which claims a "landmark" victory in making that case. Ernst & Young, one of the Big Six accounting firms, agreed to pay a near record fine of $400 million to settle a slew of cases charging it with failing to blow a whistle on S&Ls it audited. For example, say the feds, the firm failed to challenge fictitious sales of real estate made...
Students and Cambridge residents interviewed yesterday said they were sad to see the passing of a local landmark...