Word: linda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while the look of the show is simple, the numbers are not, for Porter's songs make unusual demands on a singer. The exact harmonies and sure rhythmic style make Porter's works difficult to perform. But this company, led by the fine voices of Baja Mahdi and Linda Terry, can and does sing, very well. They tend to shy away from Porter's more famous stuff, concentrating instead on the more obscure but no less delightful material...
...reigning past master of the rock-'n'-roll fever dream, Elvis Costello, and set him a tough mark to match. Minutes after bounding onstage at Hollywood High in Los Angeles, Lowe and Edmunds had the crowd dancing and cheering. "Bitchin'!" gushed one high school lad. Said Linda Ronstadt, who crashed the high school party: "That was the best rock 'n' roll I've heard in years. I loved the sense of humor in his music...
...druidic spell for 35 minutes, making up the story as he went along. It was about a creature in Russia that set upon other animals. "The impact was tremendous," he recalls. "Then and there I decided to give up my job and write novels." He and his wife Linda moved to rural Marshfield, Mass., to operate the local Y.W.C.A. so that he could write. Two unpublished novels and five years later, O'Callahan found that his prime talent was for telling stories aloud. He found it in a manner any parent might envy: entertaining his own children, Teddy...
...Linda Collins, wife of a Chicago steel-worker and mother of two small children, has reluctantly gone to work as a night waitress on weekends to cover living expenses. Gladys Glazer, a retired secretary in Orlando, Fla., shops where second-quality vegetables and fruits are offered at reduced prices, and even there she shuns strawberries as an extravagance. Manhattan Lawyer Arthur Alexander delivers some letters in person to nearby business offices to save on postage...
...Linda Uribe Jurewitz...