Word: laverne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DIED. LAVERN BAKER, 67, 1950s rhythm-and-blues diva; from complications of diabetes; in New York City. During the early rock-'n'-roll era, white performers found success by making cover versions of such hits of hers as 1954's Teedlee Dee, but Baker got belated revenge when she was inducted into rock's Hall of Fame...
That same poll also found that the proportion of people who smoke becomes greater with increasing age, which initially suggests that more people are picking up the habit of smoking during college. But according to Candice Pierce-Lavern, director of government affairs for the American Cancer Society, this is unlikely since 90 percent of the smoking population starts before the age of 18 and most people develop the habit between the ages...
BLACK AND BLUE. Tony winner Ruth Brown seemed irreplaceable as the comic heft of this gorgeous Broadway review, but LaVern Baker (also heard on the Dick Tracy score) gets the same laughs and is, if anything, torchier. In other regards this celebration of blues song and tap dance is better than ever: the all-black cast has infused a newfound Harlem funk into the Busby Berkeleyesque glamour...