Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Waits has never been better. He is a true poet, musician and inventor. His latest Machine is a wonderful innovation...
...builds compromises and is accused of being slick. He tries to please, omnidirectionally, and is accused of pandering. I ask if he ever considered being anything but a politician. Yes, he answers, a doctor, because he saw his mother and her fellow nurses deferring to them. Then a musician. At Oxford, when he thought his opposition to the Vietnam War would preclude a political career in the patriotic South, he seriously considered becoming a journalist. "I would at least comment on the great events of my time." Why had he rejected those careers? "I would not have been great...
While others fancied him as a preacher, Billy was determined to be a musician. He attended band camp every summer in the Ozarks, won first place in the state band's saxophone section, and played in jazz combos. Musicians were always coming and going at the Hot Springs clubs, and the first blacks Clinton respected were jazz artists he heard and tried to emulate. Despite the joshing he takes now over his sporadic bouts with the saxophone, his band director, Virgil Spurlin, says he was very talented and dogged in his practice: "He could sight-read with the best...
...third Gordon daughter, Sheila, experiments with LSD, marries her high school sweetheart, dumps him and begins a six-year course of psychotherapy. Ricky, who is gay, has a tormented childhood and suffers from LSD flashbacks and bulimia. A musician and composer, he is also a passionate believer in New Age fads, especially the healing powers of crystals. He has watched several friends die of AIDS and has no intention of finding out whether he is infected...
...bring. Jimcharmingly strung dental floss through his nostriland out of his mouth (feel that burn!) and Marccould be depended upon to say something biting anddry, when he wasn't sleeping and you could hearhim over his stereo (just bust a move). We had aditz and a femme fatale, a musician, a dancer, amovie star's son and a mohawked ex-debutante. Weeven had a kitten...