Word: masakela
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Heat, broadcast nightly from New York City, offers late headlines and single-issue shows intended to mesmerize young news junkies. One recent edition addressed the transformation of the South African theater. The guests included the cast of the play Survival, musician Hugh Masakela and, from Johannesburg, novelist Nadine Gordimer. "We want to erase the artificial line between intellectual and creative expression," says host John Hockenberry. "We want the show to be a place where the left brain and the right brain can unwind together." That's a tall order. Can the live wires at NPR deliver? Stay tuned...
...only can, but is. Some men, of course, are old hands with a bag: Designer Rudi Gernreich has a complete wardrobe of them. Others, like Sammy Davis Jr., Jazz Trumpeter Hugh Masakela, Actors Jim Brown and Elliott Gould, Manhattan Publisher Jerry Mason and a host of lesser-known straight men, are busily following suit. Hippies have long favored the style, and members of a Houston contingent not only wear them but do a thriving business making and selling their brown suede "stash bags" for from $3 to $5. Industrial Designer Darrell Howe likes the fashion so much he is designing...
...variety of performers plugging into the bank of amplifiers on the arena stage during five concerts showed how many tributaries the mixed stream of pop music draws on today-from blues (Paul Butterfield) and jazz (Trumpeter Hugh Masakela) to folk (English Singer Beverly) and country and western (Johnny Rivers). Ravi Shankar, whose classical sitar playing has been so enthusiastically applauded and imitated in the U.S. jazz and pop world that he has opened a school for Indian music in Los Angeles, had an entire concert to himself. A capacity audience sat breathlessly silent during his hypnotic droning and twanging...
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