Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Orleans, hit the bars on Bourbon St. (don't miss Pat O'Brien's famous Hurricane) at night, and during the day stroll the Mississippi River Walk, enjoy the street artists and performers, and sample Cafe du Monde's beignets, a type of fried donut. Also, be sure to stop at the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in the Quarter one evening. The music is some of the best anywhere, and the $1 admission fee can't be beat...
Inevitably, the sound was altered. Some orchestral players claim they cannot hear one another adequately in performance, that the communication among them no longer has an intimate, chambermusic quality. Some listeners miss the old soul-rattling vibrations. Says Acoustician Larry King, who was not involved in the project: "Carnegie Hall doesn't shake the skull as it did before." Summing up the negative reaction, Music Critic Leighton Kerner of the Village Voice declared, "New York City now has another Avery Fisher Hall," referring to the acoustically troubled home of the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center...
...gave it a lot of thought, but I couldn't take the chance of playing two years, being unhappy with myself," Sugrue said, "but I do miss the team...
...sail? Shall we put up Dolly?" Perhaps a revolutionary and certainly a ! provocative new spinnaker -- featuring rows of billowing bulges -- is on loan from the N.Y.Y.C. The club had a falling-out with Conner three years ago; its entry America II fell out of the tournament seven weeks ago. Miss Parton's namesake constitutes a peace offering. "I love the way she shakes those thingies," he sings...
Libel plaintiff lawyers like Attorney Gerry Spence counter that the victims of a writer's vendetta or recklessness are entitled to recompense. "We must be free to fictionalize, but we can't hurt people with the exercise of our freedom," says Spence. Six years ago he represented a former Miss Wyoming, Kimerli Pring, in a suit against Penthouse, which ran a tale about the sexual feats of a fictional Miss Wyoming. Though an appeals court threw out the lower-court award of $12.5 million, the case sent a shiver through publishers. Another shudder had come with a 1979 decision...