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...surprisingly, Tigrett sees the situation differently. "The black community turned its back on the blues," he says. "Black intellectuals said, 'Blues, man, that's some rag-tag man singing on a front porch. That's poor self-image, singing in broken English.' And from 1963 to 1973 the black community abandoned the blues. The audience became white, and that was a tragedy." These are claims black and white blues lovers might question. But in an effort to show goodwill, Tigrett is trying to broaden the audience for the music he loves. HOB provides high-school seniors with college scholarships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: SERVING UP THE BLUES | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

...remember the day the Harvard acceptance letter came. My dad stood on the porch, nervously holding a very thin envelope (we were both too scared to realize early acceptances wouldn't come in fat envelopes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coming to Terms With Harvard | 6/5/1996 | See Source »

...window, I hear the familiar sounds of "ABBA" blasting in the Library Suite, the laughter of a group returning from the Square and the subdued murmurs of a couple sitting under a tree. The Quad is calm and it is alive. The night security guard, John, looks off the porch of the Grand Entryway, in front of the cabinet that will hold the Straus Cup another year. This is a remarkable place, and just think: There are eleven more just like it, but nothing that could ever be the same...

Author: By Patrick S. Chug, | Title: A Happy Lottery Story | 5/22/1996 | See Source »

...morning, turning to possible showers in the mid-afternoon. Tonight, over-cast with 70 percent chance of rains"), only to wish I went to school with my cousin at Emory. He let me know the other day that he was enjoying a cold beverage on his sunny, 75-degree porch. My only compensation was that he didn't have a dartboard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The February Blahs | 3/1/1996 | See Source »

What still plagues SNL this year is a penchant for sketches that don't seem to have any point. The show's new, unexplainable fixation is with characters who yell at faceless crowds. One has Cheri Oteri in a housecoat screaming at children from her front porch. The skit is too redolent of a scene from Vicki Lawrence's Mama's Family to watch comfortably in its entirety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: THE BATTLE FOR SATURDAY NIGHT | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

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