Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...holding back. The spotlight is on her," swoons the prospectus. "The man becomes the orchestrator, playing her body as if it were a precious instrument." A similar passage is in Nice Girls Do: "There's no holding back. The spotlight is on you. Your partner becomes the musician, playing your body as if it were a precious instrument...
...nearly 70 and loves exercise classes. Another Carol, an inner-city emergency-room nurse from the Midwest, cannot trust herself with a handful of change near a candy machine. The couple from Park Avenue play backgammon at 7 in the morning; the amiable rotund man is a rock musician, and the lithe woman with him is his secretary, who considerately flew in yet another woman, his girlfriend, "as a reward...
...table adorned with photographs of rock star david Bowie served as a podium for a tape machine blaring a few of the musician's recent recordings...
DIED. Hoagy Carmichael, 82, composer of songs that influenced the Big Band sound of the 1930s and 1940s and made him a popular music idol; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. A self-taught musician who briefly practiced law, Carmichael was captivated by the syncopated rhythm and improvisational style of Jazz Great Bix Beiderbecke. Carmichael's simple, unpretentious ballads began catching the public's ear in 1931 with his first hit, Star Dust. The more than 50 standards he wrote include Georgia on My Mind, Ole Buttermilk Sky, Lazybones, The Nearness of You and In the Cool, Cool, Cool...
...family, he pleaded guilty to armed robbery, aggravated burglary and unauthorized use of a stolen vehicle; he was sentenced to 231 years in prison without parole. Simonis and two other Lake Charles men, John Glass Dickinson III, 26, a pharmacist, and Frederick A. Boerman Jr., 27, a waiter and musician, were also indicted on charges connected with the double rapes of a mother and her 14-year-old daughter last June. Charges are expected to be filed against Simonis and Dickinson in at least seven other cities. Says Photographic Assistant Judy Christman, 23, a former girlfriend of both men: "They...