Word: newports
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...Krupa (Let Me Off Uptown) and Stan Kenton (And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine) and cemented her hipster reputation by performing in low-key jackets and skirts instead of gowns. Of her career--highlighted by signatures Sweet Georgia Brown and Honeysuckle Rose and a stunning performance at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival--she said, "When I'm singing, I'm happy...
...Krupa (Let Me Off Uptown) and Stan Kenton (And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine) and cemented her hipster reputation by performing in low-key jackets and skirts instead of gowns. Of her career-highlighted by signatures Sweet Georgia Brown and Honeysuckle Rose and a stunning performance at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival-she said, "When I'm singing, I'm happy...
After a lifetime of football—from his youth in Newport News to his Saturdays in Allston—this weekend will finally bring him to the end of the line. As is true for many of his classmates, The Game will likely be the final time he’ll ever wear a football uniform, let alone Harvard?...
...impending report of Baker's bipartisan Iraq Study Group heralds the return of the realists, many of whom worked under Bush the Elder, the most competent foreign policy realist ever to serve as President. Their inner circle huddled last month in Newport News, Va., at the christening of the aircraft carrier named after the former President. They discussed the need for a change to a more pragmatic approach. The cadre included Scowcroft, Baker, Powell and Lawrence Eagleburger (now in Baker's study group) as well as their soft-spoken and clear-minded longtime colleague Robert Gates, who has now been...
...Confessions of Nat Turner--that explore, in agonizing detail, the human capacity for evil; on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. A descendant of slave owners, Styron became obsessed as a boy with the 1831 slave revolt led by Nat Turner, which began not far from his childhood home in Newport News, Va. Confessions, written in the first person, drew bitter criticism from black leaders, who called it presumptuous, but won Styron a Pulitzer Prize. Along with Sophie's Choice, the harrowing tale of an Auschwitz survivor that became an Oscar-winning 1982 movie starring Meryl Streep, it cemented his reputation...