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...newest release, Onda Sonora (Portuguese for sound wave), explores similar territory. It's a challenging album that offers peformances by Veloso, k.d. lang, Cape Verdean singer Lura as well as the enchanting sound of Fado--a kind of Portuguese folk-blues. Next up: a CD featuring R.-and-B. stars tackling the music of Duke Ellington. Looks as if Red Hot will stay that way for a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Beautifully Blurred | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...part of the pre-International Baccalaureate program at Robinson Middle School in Wichita, Kans., are used to classes full of bright, motivated kids. But even in this heady environment, Tyler Emerson stands out. Tyler's 12-year-old mind runs deep, notes one of his sixth-grade teachers, Lura Atherly. "He questions things, but not with surface questions. He asks extending questions: Why? What if...?" When the class studied the Russian Revolution, Tyler wanted to discuss what would have happened if the Romanovs had escaped: What if they had come back after the fall of communism? His writing also reflects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Make A Better Student: Their Eight Secrets of Success | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

Bill and Sharon Allen of Hingham brought their whole family--children Lura, 8, and Hardy, 11, as well as Bill's mother, Martha, who was celebrating her 82nd birthday. The concert was a special event for the family, Bill says...

Author: By Brian D. Ellison and Joe Mathews, S | Title: Unusual Boys Choir Sings Spirit Into Season | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...Republican as Vermont and twice as tough. Charlie's father. Lawyer Abraham Halleck * was a two-term Republican state senator who preached Republicanism as gospel. But if his party faith is a legacy from Father Abraham. Charlie Halleck inherited his energy and ambition from his mother, Lura ("Birdie") Halleck, a remarkable woman who taught herself to type legal abstracts, ran Abraham's law office, drove the family's National, managed an eleven-room house, and raised a brood of five children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Gut Fighter | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

According to their neighbors, the six Arizona wives also go from door to door in their spare time selling homemade layettes and spectacle-cleaning tissues. But even after jailing Hilda Dutson, 46, Arline Dutson, 48, Hazel Dutson, 55, Lura Dutson, 44, Sara Dutson, 43, and Anna Dutson, 33, the local law didn't have too much hope of catching their lord & master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The More the Merrier | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

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