Word: marlies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sitting in a midtown Manhattan restaurant, long past lunchtime, Horne looks $ exquisitely beautiful under a big straw hat, without a line to mar her fine- boned face. She speaks of the album's inspiration in a voice whose honeyed drawl seems to have all the Old South in it. "I met Billy Strayhorn in 1942," she says, "in Los Angeles at an Ellington show called Jump for Joy. I was MGM's token black starlet, getting no parts, and a divorced mother of two. Billy was homosexual, but I fell in love. He was the thoughtful side of Ellington...
...those people who had spent the early months of 1993 feeling mighty smug because I have always paid the Social Security tax for my once-a-week cleaning lady and have the paperwork to prove it. This second demonstration of my job- creating prowess would not be allowed to mar that record. Anyway, the paperwork would not be my problem. What are assistants for, after...
...Through Mar 1. The Label Show: Contemporary Art and the Museum, an exhibition of 20 works from the permanent collection...
Boston Symphony Orchestra. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave., Boston. 226-1200. Luciano Berio, conductor. Performs Mar-cello's Oboe Concerto, Berio's Echoing Curves II and Schubert/Berio's Rendering on Thursday, March 10 at 8 p.m.; Friday, March 11 at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 12 at 8 p.m. and Tuesday, march...
Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square. 876-6837. "The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg" at 4, 5:45, 7:30, 9:15 and Saturday matinee at 2:15 through Thursday, Mar. 10. This engaging and tender documentary portrays a view of the last fifty years through the penetrating eyes of the visionary poet and pacifist, Allen Ginsberg...