Word: perlman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come you're so upper class and we're so lower class, and you're our daughter?" a Government economist named Jacob Perlman once asked his sassy child Judith. Not an easy question for the future Miss Manners to answer. Perhaps some kind of metamorphosis began back when Perlman worked for the United Nations and moved his family to the Philippines. Recalls Judith Martin: "My father sat us down, my brother and me, and said, 'Children, we have to tell you something. We have reached the crucial point when the servants outnumber...
Music is everywhere. Cajun zydeco and cool blues vie with big bands and hot jazz. There are marching bands and washboard scratchers, as well as beer hall oom-pah-pah and big-name oomph. Concert performers will run the scale from Willie Nelson and Linda Ronstadt to Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern. Naturally, Al Hirt and Pete Fountain will also drop by to blow a few notes on behalf of the local talent...
Elliott Carter: The Early Music (CRI). The cerebral composer has his roots in the folksy American idiom of Ives and Copland, as this disc surprisingly shows. Elgar: Violin Concerto (Deutsche Grammophon). Itzhak Perlman triumphs in Elgar's most restrained major work...
...Performance at the White House. Another show for the nation's Presidential mansion, this one featuring violinist Itzhak Perlman and an all-star group of jazz performers...
...could be $100 million out of balance by the end of the fiscal year next July, the state has frozen hiring, is deferring maintenance on state buildings and has canceled $500,000 in new equipment orders. Now state legislators are talking about a tax hike. Says Budget Director Ralph Perlman: "We've run out of windfall from Washington. We've run out of exotic tax measures. Our economy has run out of gas, and in Louisiana, when you run out of gas, you run out of money...