Word: loft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gaunt 160 Ibs. She needn't have wondered about her rich contralto: it came out just fine. To save her the wear of traveling to studios on the East or West coasts, Columbia Records hauled some special tape equipment to Chicago. And there last week in the choir loft of the South Side's Greater Salem Baptist Church, where she began her singing career more than 30 years ago, Mahalia rolled vibrantly through Never Turn Back, We've Come a Mighty Long Way, and eleven other resounding gospels. "I don't think I can take...
...Chorus. As with most Negro opera singers, Shirley's vocal talents were developed in the choir loft, initially in St. John's African Methodist Episcopal Church in his native Indianapolis, and later in Detroit, where at 13 he sold papers to pay for his first private lessons. Son of an insurance agent, Shirley graduated from Wayne State University in 1955 with a degree in music education, taught at a Detroit high school for a year before being drafted into the Army. After singing with the Army chorus for three years, he moved to Manhattan, where his rise...
Classic or simply crummy, the bulk of modern English lewd literature first tumbled into print in the Paris loft of Maurice Girodias, 45, proprietor of Olympia Press. Now, laments the first publisher of Tropic of Cancer, The Black Book, Lolita, Fanny Hill and Candy, "our role is ended." Through the imposition, by his count, of 60 bans, 100 lawsuits and six suspended prison sentences, the French government has finally got through to Girodias. "The astonishing truth is," he says, "that moral and artistic freedom have now become a reality in Britain and the U.S., whereas the same concepts are being...
...building has so far cost him, by his neighbors' estimate, upwards of $150,000, and he still finds it hard to complete. The askew Y-shaped plan, butterfly roofline and fleshy colors inside echo his predilections in paint. The rhomboid, glass-sided studio reminds him of a loft; his large professional kitchen reminds him of the cafeterias that he ate in most of his life. "Sometimes I think I'm nuts to have started this house," he says. "I'll die before it's finished, maybe. But I like...
...Likely Loft. In Manhattan, last of the big-time holdouts, players looking for a game at night or in bad weather have had to choose in the past between several ill-lighted, slat-floored courts in armories and the prohibitively costly, ultra-exclusive River Club...