Word: novas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...artistically to the first set's fine performances. One exception was the tune "Don't Rock the Jazz Boat," a staple of Jones's groups through the years. While Latin beats adapted to the jazz context often come across as trite and excessively happy, Jones metamorphosed the bossa nova of this chart into a menacing Amazonian thunderstorm. Distant rumblings on the toms grew louder and louder during Jones's solo, and as the storm came crashing down, lightning forked through the cymbals and snare...
...Wilson, Pellegrino university professor of science and curator of entomology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, collaborated with WGBH, Boston's public television station, to produce the show, a NOVA special entitled "Little Creatures Who Run the World...
Paula Apsell, executive producer of NOVA at WGBH, described Wilson as "a towering figure in bringing science to the public," as well as the leading ant expert in the world. Wilson's work has garnered him the National Medal of Science and two Pulitzer Prizes, highlighting his talent for explaining science to the general reader...
...jumped at the opportunity when approached by NOVA," Wilson said, adding that he had worked previously with Jones on the 1980s "Trials of Life"science series...
Wilson, who recently published anautobiography, said his part in the NOVA specialwas mainly to advise Jones' team on major themes...