Word: life
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deplorable that the state-run media would contribute to this hysteria," said Dr. Yakov Rudakov, a leading psychotherapist with the Institute for Physical-Technical Problems. Even the obsession with UFOs may be a projection of Soviet anxieties, a pseudoscientific distraction from the increasing economic and political burdens of daily life. Enraged that TASS publishes such reports, one Muscovite said, "It's a reflection of a country falling apart...
...routine fashion for years, stitching the songs together with chipper- inane prattle as featureless as his musicianship. He's just a guy supporting his offscreen wife, kids and mortgage in a way he finds more congenial than, say, selling aluminum siding. Banality is a hair shirt for Jack. His life is all squalid improvisation and silent disgust at tinkling out "piano stylings." He knows better, and he might do better, as a jazzman...
Woody remembers that trip, along with two earlier jaunts to the Crescent City, as high points of his life. Accompanied by Diane Keaton, he scurried around the French Quarter with his clarinet under his arm, looking, listening and sitting in with local jazzmen. "It was like watching Willie Mays all your life and then finding yourself in the outfield with him," Woody recalls. Festival producer George Wein even talked him into playing a set at one of the official concerts...
...clarinetist heroes: Sidney Bechet, Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone and George Lewis. Woody is so passionate about jazz, in fact, that he says he would have preferred to be a full-time musician if only he "had been born with a massive talent" for it. "It's the best life I can think of if you're a really talented musician because communication in music is so emotional in every...
Lewis, who died in 1968, spent most of his life playing obscure New Orleans dance halls and parades until his "discovery" in the mid-'40s. Yet he had something that touched people all over the world. Wherever his records were available, young musicians strove to copy his sound. Woody first confronted this phenomenon in 1971, when he went to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage ! Festival and sat in on some French Quarter jam sessions. "There was a Japanese George Lewis and a British George Lewis and a Jewish George Lewis. It was really hilarious...