Word: ouija
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buying a car, and you can't afford to make a mistake. What do you do? Consult your friends and your Ouija board? Pore over newspapers and magazine ads? Endure dealership pitches and test drives? Lie awake at night worried you'll screw up? All of the above...
Dreamland shows that Peyroux is more than a vocal Ouija board. On the very first track she stretches beyond jazz with a patient, deeply pleasing rendition of Walkin' After Midnight, a song made famous by country star Patsy Cline. And in a nod to her French roots, Peyroux delivers a vibrant version of Edith Piaf's La Vie en Rose. Dreamland features an impressive cast of supporting players. Pianist Chestnut provides restrained invention on Reckless Blues, guitarist Vernon Reid (formerly of the rock band Living Colour) enlivens Muddy Water, and up-and-coming jazz stars Marcus Printup (trumpet) and James...
...scant consolation to frequent flyers coping with Ouija-board ticket prices, jammed cabins and Munchkin-friendly coach seats, but the U.S. airline industry has reached cruising altitude. Last year it posted a $2.5 billion profit. Compare that with the $13 billion in losses the carriers had piled up since 1990--roughly equivalent to all the profits earned in the history of American commercial aviation--and the industry ought to be smiling, or at least unbuckling its seat belt and raising a $5 martini in a plastic...
...Sources point to YES!" Magic 8 Balls were a favorite among the first-years interviewed. No one admitted owning a Ouija board, but tarot cards and the I-ching abounded. Mystic Rosa, the fortune teller on the corner...
Under sun and moon-in all weathers-he went on constructing, a process whose natural culmination was his vast phantasmagoria The Changing Light at Sandover, an epic poem stretching over three volumes and chronicling extended conversations with the illustrious dead, whom Merrill summoned by Ouija board. He has gone on to become one of them, leaving behind the paradoxical legacy of a man who loved both understatement and sumptuosity, nicety and grandeur. In the end, his contradictions were expansive. Collectively the poems declare, Here's a world, and it's a good...