Word: marvinism
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When asked if McCurry was considering a faculty position at Harvard, Marvin Kalb, Murrow professor of press, politics and pubic policy and director of the Shorenstein Center, said he had spoken with McCurry "several times...
...noises so they couldn't hear the ceremony, followed by heavy-metal music (White Zombie did the honors) to get rid of them. The bride's son gave her away, and one of the bridegroom's sons was best man. The pool was strewn with lilies and candles, and Marvin Hamlisch and a 16-piece orchestra played the processionals. As evening fell, in a final romantic touch, the couple's publicists released a joint statement...
...Angelo and Maxwell are distinct performers, but they share a willingness to challenge musical orthodoxy. For too long, critics, taking the public with them, have looked to rock and gangsta rap to fill the pantheon of pop heroes. But there was a time when auteurs had soul, when Marvin was asking what's going on, when Stevie was singing songs in the key of life, when Aretha was demanding respect. This season, with the ascension of a new generation of neo-soul stars, the past may be present again, and, to paraphrase Fanon, the future may be opening...
...David Geffen, Streisand's mother, songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman (the only invitees who knew the wedding date well in advance; all others were invited on short notice over the phone), "Tootsie" director Sidney Pollack, designer Donna Karan (who made the wedding dress), music producer Quincy Jones and composer Marvin Hamlisch, who conducted a 16-piece orchestra playing "Here Comes the Bride." Despite one L.A. newscast's report that Streisand's close friend President Clinton planned to cut short his China visit in order to attend the nuptials, the Chief Executive was not there. But his brother Roger -- with wife...
...school of jazz since has had to address how he interpreted the basics of the idiom--swing, blues, ballads and Afro-Hispanic rhythms. While every jazz instrumentalist owes him an enormous debt, singers as different as Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and Marvin Gaye have Armstrong in common as well. His freedom, his wit, his discipline, his bawdiness, his majesty and his irrepressible willingness to do battle with deep sorrow and the wages of death give his music a perpetual position in the wave of the future that is the station...