Word: musician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Daniel is a musician mainly in his mind's eye. He earns his living by cleaning houses and offices for about ten clients at $7 to $10 an hour. He says he is "barely making it" on $7,000 a year, and he declares no more than half of that to the IRS , "just enough to discourage an audit." The chance of being arrested does not worry him. Says he: "I'm a little too clever to get caught...
...fund to benefit the arts at the University has recently been net up in memory of a well-known, Harvard-educated TV musician who was murdered in his Los Angeles apartment two weeks...
...characters are farmers, schoolteachers, librarians, telephone linemen. If one of them breaks out briefly from the boundaries of place and station, he-and particularly she-is usually fated to come back. In Accident, the would-be musician Frances returns to Hanratty, after a spell at a conservatory, to direct a high school glee club and play the organ in a church on Sunday. When she falls in love with a married science teacher, they can find no better places to make love than on the floor of the science supply closet...
...over the class barrier by winning a scholarship in music to Oxford; by the time he left with two degrees in 1958, he was an accomplished Garner-style jazzman and the prolific composer of tunes for local skits and cabarets. "Dudley has always had a promiscuous talent as a musician," says his old friend Jonathan Miller. "He secretes music like sweat...
...back to him and say, 'We can't afford to use so-and-so because everything he does is too expensive.' I would never say to Jimmy, 'I think Domingo ought to sing that instead of Pavarotti.' I'm a lawyer, not a musician, not a stage director, not a scenic designer, not a singer...