Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airport had been ringed by 500 soldiers. Sharpshooters were staked out, but, strangely and disastrously, there were only five of them to pick off eight Arabs; the rest had been left at Olympic Village in case the Arabs presented targets of opportunity there...
Later this month, Dave's quartet (augmented by Former Sidekick Paul Desmond) takes off for a four-week tour of Australia and Japan, not to pick up with the young Brubecks again until mid-October. Darius, meanwhile, will be writing some new material for the quartet. Chris will be playing with New Heavenly Blue on weekends, while also trying to raise a B average to an A at the University of Michigan, where he is majoring in music and the bass trombone. Danny will be deciding whether to stay in Darius' group or head south to the North...
...says Panella. "You never get used to those first few minutes-you know, with the guns and all that." The closest call he has ever had was in Beirut, when he arranged the bust of a small-time dealer. "We got to the building where I was going to pick up the stuff. The police were supposed to stay at the top of some long narrow stairs until I climbed up there with the trafficker. But they started to come down too soon. I felt the automatic in my back. When I heard the hammer click, I dived forward...
...King, three of his children and his only brother, Prince Moulay Abdullah-all of whom were on the plane-Oufkir would have had dictatorial powers as head of a regency in the name of nine-year-old Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed. In fact, he had planned to pick up the child, who was vacationing in the mountains, immediately after the attack...
...programs with astonishing versatility. One night he was conducting a chamber orchestra in Mozart, another playing jazz piano with Guitarist Barney Kessel, another accompanying Soprano Judith Raskin at the piano in Schubert lieder, another joining the Yale String Quartet in Brahms chamber music. After a brief rest, Previn will pick up his regular routine, recording, composing, appearing in TV specials, dashing off essays for Punch and conducting about 100 concerts a year with the L.S.O. and other orchestras in England and on world tour...