Word: morrison
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...crisis. Prescient too: 21 months before the Sept. 11 attacks, he warned in a newspaper column, "The defining struggle of the new age [will] be between terrorism and security." Even at his worst, Rushdie is engaging: talking music with Bono (who wanted to discuss politics), hanging out with Van Morrison (who disliked his lousy dancing), trying to get his novel Midnight's Children made for TV (in vain, though a London stage version opens Jan. 18). Or sitting in a heavily guarded New York hotel as poet Allen Ginsberg shows him breathing exercises to relieve fatwa-induced stress. "How extraordinary...
...Stevens ’03 returned home over the holiday break to find that all his old friends have become either borderline drug addicts or born-again Christians. Seeking to find a happy medium, Stevens has begun proselytizing while high. “Jesus, was, like, the original Jim Morrison,” he whispered gravely...
DIED. LONNIE DONEGAN, 71, Scottish rock and blues musician who in the 1950s introduced Britain to "skiffle"--a precursor to rock 'n' roll that combines folk, jug band, country, jazz and blues--inspiring musicians like John Lennon, Van Morrison and Pete Townshend; after a long battle with heart ailments; in Peterborough, England. Among his hits were Rock Island Line and Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor (on the Bedpost Overnight...
...Raise your hand if you are sick of Sept. 11" were not the words of an apathetic teacher, as some of your readers might think [VERBATIM, Sept. 23]. Rather, as your explanatory text noted, teacher Liz Morrison was making an effort to engage her students in a discussion of the Sept. 11 attacks. Morrison is a beloved, well-respected teacher who has spearheaded patriotic campaigns to raise money for a World War II veterans memorial and to register voters. In reporting that two-thirds of the students raised their hands, you perpetuated the media's negative stereotype of teenagers...
...were even dumber, uglier and more deranged than the people who watched it.) But the show's producer, Velma Von Tussle (Linda Hart), insists on keeping the cast prim and pretty, with her blond daughter Amber (Laura Bell Bundy) as the Shrewish American Princess and hunky Link Larkin (Matthew Morrison) as her consort...