Word: peake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Betty Carter to Diana Krall. A Family Affair (Verve), his third album as a leader, was released last summer. It includes some smart electric tunes (though listeners who actually lived through the 1970s may not be eager to reacquaint themselves with the sound of Moog synthesizers) but reaches its peak with an acoustic, rhythmically virtuosic version of the Sly Stone title song that somehow manages to swing while also suggesting the original funk beat. McBride says he's trying to provoke: "How many more concept albums can you handle? Such and Such plays the music of Gershwin...
...downfall, in typical Rothian fashion, is filtered through the textures of separate memories. One of them belongs to Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's longtime fictional impersonation, who as a high school student had been befriended and bedazzled by Ira at the peak of his glory. The other narrative voice is that of Murray Ringold, Ira's elder brother and Nathan's long-ago high school English teacher. Now 90, Murray meets Nathan again and decides to talk about a troubled past: "I'm the only person still living who knows Ira's story, you're the only person still living...
...drastic, brutal and, surprisingly, well admired by his peers. He was awarded a faculty position at Temple University Medical School and the Man of the Year award from the American Academy of Psychotherapy. From the 1950s to the late 1970s, Rosen was psychiatry's Superman; he soared to the peak of his profession with the claim that he could cure any psychosis...
...great ambassador for baseball and was a great player once, too, but an entire generation of fans is watching him play at a level far below his peak. If he wants to be remembered as a great ballplayer instead of merely an enduring one, maybe it's time to retire...
...Harvard men's tennis team working at peak team efficiency? Maybe not, but this past weekend's Fluitt Invitational Tournament in Lexington, Ky., did a lot to prepare the team for this weekend's rigors...