Word: neon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Haden, who fantasizes as readily about hanging out with John Garfield as he does about getting down with Charlie Parker, says, "I wanted to pass along the feeling of standing in Philip Marlowe's office looking out at the neon lights blinking off and on in the night." Haunted Heart's 12 pieces range from new compositions by Haden and pianist Alan Broadbent to reworkings of standards by Parker, Bud Powell and Glenn Miller to -- most surprisingly and, perhaps, most inventively -- three period vocals by Billie Holiday, Jeri Southern and Jo Stafford, copied straight from Haden's 5,000-volume...
...just a few days, U.C. representative campaigns begin. Students can probably expect the usual. Kinko's wide range of neon colors will brighten the campus, featuring bad top-ten lists and trite, self-serving words like "commitment," "dedication" and "experience...
...sound like sour grapes, but I think that's what has kept the Square different," Joe says. If franchises ever found their way into Harvard Square, he says, "it'd get to be a neon jungle...
...part as fashion accessory," was followed by others on "The Lipstick Wars" and health clubs (they're popular). Like an American abroad speaking slower and louder to be understood, the type is extra large and the sentences are extra short. The overall effect is of a grandmother squeezing into neon biking shorts after everyone else has moved on to long black skirts; the Saks Fifth Avenue ad Styles replaces was hipper. The section is evolving; it adds value for those who want to read it. "No one has to read the whole Sunday paper but me," says Sulzberger...
...essentially a tiny winged speck of libido. Here's what typically happens: the males form a hovering globular swarm, ranging from a softball-size band of a dozen to a ballroom-size throng of millions. To any female that may be around, the male buzzing sound is like a neon sign in front of a singles bar. She makes a beeline -- all right, a mosquitoline -- straight into the swarm. Once she's inside, the sound of her wings, beating 250 to 500 times a second, becomes the mosquito equivalent of a flirty hair flip. The males frantically elbow each other...