Word: maupin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sensitive jazz style. On recent albums he plays simplistic music on a barrage of electronic instruments. He sings through a vocal synthesizer. His infrequent piano spots are usually mixed down so far as to be barely audible. His band is topnotch--it includes accomplished jazz players like Bennie Maupin and Alphonse Mouzon--but the high level of players like Bennie Maupin and Alphonse Mouzon--but the high level of hypnotic repetition. The band is worth hearing; Hancock was a vanguard in the field of instrumental funk, and he continues to play it better than anyone else. It's a shame...
Armistead Maupin, the author of the often lurid, 14-month-old Tales of the City, is regarded by some as a kind of contemporary Boswell: "I haven't written anything that hasn't happened -God knows that in San Francisco you don't have to make it up." San Francisco suburbanites had their own serial in the Pacific Sun until its author, Cyra McFadden, got a book contract and published The Serial (Knopf; $4.95), a fast-selling, funny, 52-chapter account of Living Together Relationships and Creative Divorce Groups in Marin County...
...July; a few days later another court ordered the immediate merger of the 73 Louisville public schools with the 107 schools in surrounding Jefferson County to facilitate the busing. (The newly merged school district has a total enrollment of 130,000 students, including 26,000 blacks.) Milburn T. Maupin, a black former acting superintendent of Louisville schools, then organized and directed a human-relations campaign designed to minimize racial tensions. He set up a speakers' bureau of school officials, principals and teachers who delivered hundreds of talks to community and parents' groups urging compliance with the court order...
...unemployed truck driver, pleaded guilty to toppling two BPA towers near Brightwood, Ore., and using the U.S. mail to extort money. He faces 22 years in prison and a $20,500 fine. Sheila Heesch also pleaded guilty of being an accomplice to the dynamiting of two other towers near Maupin, 145 miles southeast of Portland, and to one count of extortion in the blackmail attempt...