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...convincing. Crosby did indeed learn from Louis - a debt he would gleefully repay with dozens of recorded duets, frequent invitations to Armstrong to appear on "Kraft Music Hall" and the securing of star billing for Armstrong in Crosby's 1936 film "Pennies from Heaven" (at the time a rare plum for a black performer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Book on Bing Crosby | 5/17/2001 | See Source »

When Chulada bought his $1,000 pair of decks a year-and-a-half ago, they were a musical revelation. "I spent two months learning how to spin on inferior turn-tables," he says, outfitted for maximum hipness in a plum-colored oxford, tight black trousers and two-day stubble. "Then when I tried the Tech 12s, I suddenly felt like a real deejay." Today, the former hippie haven of Haight-Ashbury, where the laid-back Chulada bunks with his brother, teems with hundreds of makeshift Mobys scratching out their living. Some, including Chulada, have made it to the coolest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techno Fetishes | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...POST Plum job. Great digs. No foreign tongues. Downside: must entertain lots of visiting U.S. VIPs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Greetings From | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...Never, ever, order plum juice bubble tea in Chinatown. On the way down it tastes like rotten prunes, on the way up it tastes like beef jerky...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Ten Things You Should Never Do | 4/19/2001 | See Source »

...plum tomato sauce, drop a few pieces of steamed broccoli and melt some mozzarella...

Author: By Justin D. Gest, | Title: Say Cheese! | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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