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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These days, after much of the media hype and lunacy has abated, ((I am)) left simply with a gut feeling of frustration. Had to learn the hard way the lexicon of the 80's and discover exactly what "spin" means. The truth hasn't been allowed to come to the fore either for any number of legal reasons or it wasn't lurid enough for print or airing...
...years, Black college quarterbacks either had to go to Canada or learn to play another position in the NFL. Interviews with those Blacks who, despite their abilities, were forced to play some-where else are some of Hoose's most revealing--shedding light both on the players' pain and the cruel bias of the system...
Bass can laugh at himself. His linking of oil with eons-old oceans may be the stuff of poetry, but how about oil and Coke? The author, preoccupied with the earth's dwindling oil reserves, was aghast to learn four years ago that his personal fuel was also in peril. When the Coca-Cola Co. announced a new formula for Coke, he began buying up crates of the old stuff. "The world is so thirsty for oil, uses so, so much. We are down to the last thousand Cokes," he mourned. Of course, Coke got a reprieve. That seems unlikely...
Created by Arthur Shugarman, a Baltimore accountant, the cards aim to inspire Jewish youngsters by helping them put faces to the names they learn in Hebrew school. Shugarman started a nonprofit company called Torah Personalities, which now distributes the cards. The most coveted one: Moshe Feinstein of New York City, an expert on Jewish law who died...
Bump! He was beginning to find his own way. There were other lessons to learn. His teacher played him some Art Tatum. Bump! " 'Does he have three hands?' It was the first time I heard something I couldn't see myself doing." He kept on learning and playing. He met Marsalis during his days at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Bump again! Marsalis talked to Roberts about the roots of jazz, challenged him intellectually, encouraged him to develop a philosophy: "Feeling is not fact." By senior year Marsalis invited Roberts to play a few gigs. Florida State promptly lost...