Word: musician
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...went a few months saying 'You can ask anything, any question except 'why blue." The question is not only repetitive, but its also unanswerable, because, according to Stanton, "It didn't have a thinking process behind it." Adds Wink, "It's like saying 'why these chords' to a musician...
Connor, who owns a small consulting business, says he is the only candidate whose background as an inventor and musician differentiates him from the other candidates...
DIED. DON CHERRY, 58, jazz musician; of liver failure; near Malaga, Spain. In the 1950s, the trumpeter experimented with "free jazz" sound and rhythm opposite the sax of Ornette Coleman. By the '60s, Cherry was a world-music pioneer, exploring influences so diverse--South Africa, Indonesia, Brazil, Bulgaria, the Middle East--he was dubbed "the musical Marco Polo...
...since the Peninsula is willing to follow this suspect logic, will it start referring to track stars as probable athletic admits? Coming from Wyoming can be a plus--are such students probable geographic admits? Are accomplished violinists probable musician admits? What about students whose parents attended Harvard? Are they probable legacy admits? What about a Black student who plays baseball whose father attended Harvard? Is he a probable affirmative action-athletic-legacy admit? More importantly, when will Peninsula start trying to indirectly undermine the qualifications of white students? Or will only Blacks be targets...
Born in North Carolina, Coltrane began his career as a horn man in Philadelphia R.-and-B. bands in the 1940s. During much of the '50s, his life followed an all-too-familiar pattern-the broke and brooding jazz musician who turns to booze and drugs. Yet in 1957 he kicked drugs cold turkey at his mother's house, subsisting only on water and a new-found religious zeal...