Word: picking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Marcy E. Shapiro, who taught him jazz composition, "He's extremely gifted. One of his gifts is that he feels a whole lot about music, and that feeling comes through." According to Shapiro, Sample can hear a piece and once or twice and pick it up. He seems to have perfect pitch, she says, but she credits him more for trying to improve his technique, which she says is usually very difficult for a natural musician. "He could always do it," Shapiro says, "but now he knows what he's doing, so he can do it even better...
Currently, Sample says he plans to balance his interests by playing the piano, planning for medical school, and meeting everybody interesting in Detroit. When it comes time to pick up the medical books, he may end up studying at the piano while talking on the phone...
...study of spouses of AIDS patients who were infected by contaminated blood transfusions, researchers found that wives became infected 16% of the time and husbands only 5%. Some 10% of the people studied had more than 200 sexual contacts with an infected partner and still did not pick up the virus...
...firings came after the wife of one of two officers arrested in the case revealed that police officials had paid hush money to her family. But the shuffle has implications beyond the cover-up. The President's Democratic Justice Party meets next week to pick a candidate to succeed him when he steps down in February. D.J.P. Chairman Roh Tae Woo appears to have Chun's blessing. Insiders say the sacking of Chang and Lho should strengthen Roh's position...
...first it sounded like Pollyanna Day at the United Nations. An international parade of prizewinners gathered on the Grand Palais stage at the 40th Cannes Film Festival to pick up their scrolls and mouth the loftiest banalities. One young filmmaker from Soviet Georgia thanked "all the inhabitants of that big wonderful country called Cinema." A Japanese director announced, "I would like to work for peace." Wim Wenders, who picked up the director's prize for his daunting, sentimental fantasy The Wings of Desire, ) said, "If we can improve the images of the world, perhaps we can improve the world." Everyone...