Word: leroyer
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...writer, a scandal: this too sounds like something we have read somewhere before. The new element, following the James Frey and JT LeRoy scandals, is the role a little-known pop-culture tastemaker played in how Viswanathan got signed, got famous and got a comeuppance...
...proceeds to tell the riveting--and neatly resolved--tale of a boxer. Empty Shell, a title that once might have been descriptive of her style, has a jaunty, optimistic streak. And it doesn't hurt that the album is full of great playing from River City legends Teenie and Leroy Hodges, the guitarist and bassist on Al Green's early albums...
...member of the National Academy of Sciences and the recipient of several awards in his lifetime, including the American Mathematical Society’s Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 1990, the National Medal of Science in 1987, and the Wolf Foundation Prize in Mathematics...
...Room, Barker Center. Oct. 25-27, from 4:00 until 5:30 p.m. Melvin Van Peebles, the maverick filmmaker best known as the writer, director and star of “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” will be delivering this semester’s Alain LeRoy Locke Lectures. The LeRoy lecture series is co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, the Department of African and African American Studies, and Basic Civitas Books (a division of the Perseus Books Group). They are held in honor of the Harlem Renaissance luminary...
Springs was started in 1887 by Bowles' great-great-grandfather Samuel Elliott White and great-grandfather Leroy Springs. Her father William Close took the company public in 1966. But by the time Bowles became CEO in 1998, the Southern textile industry was under siege from imports. A financial analyst by training (and political wife by fate--she's married to Erskine Bowles, once chief of staff under President Bill Clinton), Bowles understood that to remain competitive, Springs had to restructure, cut domestic production and run a more efficient operation. First she took the company private again, in September...