Word: leon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evening, drawing the subtle meaning out of the prose selections in a superior performance. In her closing number, evoking the Southern Baptist spirituals from which jazz sprung, Wiford-Foster was nothing less than inspirational in her preacher -like solo. In the band, Paul Brusiloff provides a hot trumpet, while Leon Greunbaum is fine on the piano. A Don Braden solo on the tenor saxophone, a la Stanley Turrentine, was very good once he warmed up and hit his groove...
...greatest Bach discovery of the century," added Leon Plantinga, chairman of the Yale Music Department...
Ustinov, who had been rumored to be ill for several months, was the first civilian to head the Soviet military since Leon Trotsky. He personified the principle that the Soviet armed forces must ultimately be the servant of the Communist Party. Still, during his eight years in the post, the military appeared to have gained unprecedented influence within the Kremlin. Politburo Member Grigori Romanov, 61, was named head of Ustinov's funeral committee, prompting speculation that he would become Defense Minister. But Moscow announced on Saturday that Marshal Sergei L. Sokolov, 73, would replace Ustinov...
...California, paintings of power and torture by Leon Golub...
...does it place one with Pinochet to speak of taste? Most political artists offer values that seem hardly more nuanced than the New Masses cartoons of the 1930s: Manichaean Punch-and-Judy shows of good and evil, projecting ideological stereotypes onto schematically experienced realities. But one striking exception is Leon Golub...