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Word: musicians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dressing room, a musician asks Langston to autograph a poster for a friend. The poster is the Unknown Comic's ultimate bag joke. Striking a reclining pose in the nude, Langston wears two bags; one as usual covers his head, the other is positioned a bit more strategically. What makes the picture ludicrous is the bag's size: it looks like is could hold a salami...

Author: By Bill Braunstein, | Title: THE UNKNOWN COMIC | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

...much. That ragged punk haircut, hardly any sequins and not one costume change. But by the time each hard-rocking set was half over, word had rippled back from the front rows to the poor souls clutching binoculars in the cheapest seats: the lead guitarist was former Boz Scaggs Musician Les Dudek. So? So Les is well known among rock groupies as the latest man in the life of the ex-wife of Sonny Bono and Gregg Allman and ex-love of Gene Simmons of Kiss. So? So, looks aside, the chick was indeed the Rambling Rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 1, 1980 | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

...matching process in the Freshman Dean's Office looks andsoundslike a miniature stock market floor. "I have a musician who likes to sleep with the window open," someone will call out, hoping to hear, "I have a composer who likes to sleep with the window open and eat Doritos." Slam. Those two folders get clipped together and the advisers move...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: The Mating Call of the Wide-Eyed Freshman | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

...experiences with Schuller as a conductor in both educational and professional situations have been so positive as to refute Irving Bush's allegation that "he is an absolutely atrocious conductor." Many musicians would agree with me in saying that he is a "musician's conductor" who brings to conducting insight and intelligence that are all too rare in today's musical world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 11, 1980 | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

Horse specializes in conning his friends, trading his superb drumming talent for money and favors. Unhappy with life as a studio musician, he buys a motorcycle in order to sell records to shops in Kingston. When Mafia hoods steal his bike, then beat him, Horse decides it's time to exact revenge from rich Mr. Big, who happens to have a beautiful daughter named Sunshine. It's all very silly, of course, and it concludes with the same moral as any Robin Hood fable...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Soothing the Savage Beast | 7/25/1980 | See Source »

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