Word: loyd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...superficial level Melnick's music is reminiscent of the Tim rice-Andrew Loyd Webber "Broad way Rock" that influenced shows like the "Rocky Horror Picture Show," but closer listening reveals the music's deeper roots in more sophisticated jazz styles, Melnick said "I wanted to avoid the ellcbe of quoting from Chinese music, but I wanted none of the tunes to be self-consciously commercial...
...Loyd Hackler, now president of the American Retail Federation, wryly recalled last week that when he was named an assistant to President Lyndon Johnson, great efforts were made to obscure Hackler's own Texas background. L.B.J. was growing sensitive to the observations that Texas people, Texas clothes, Texas food and Texas language were inundating the capital, and so Hackler was listed as being from Oklahoma. It took U.P.I.'s wily White House correspondent, Merriman Smith, to penetrate the ruse by asking: "When did he move to Texas...
Backs--ROCKY DELGADILLO, HARVARD, 6-2, 185, Senior, Los Angales, Calif.; Charles Williams, Dartmouth, 5-11, 180, Senior, San Francisco, Calif.; Phil Loyd, Cornell, 6-0, 186, Senior, Rochester...
...senior buyer for FAO Schwarz, the Manhattan toy emporium, "the world's most asked-for plaything." It can also be an obsession, an infuriation and an invitation to insomnia, distracting workers from their jobs, students from their theses, even lovers from love. Scholars compare it to Sam Loyd's puzzle, an 1873 American invention that was said to have driven 1,500 people to insanity...