Word: rag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...score been published when it was originally composed, people might first have gone wild about Eubie in 1899 when he wrote Charleston Rag. In that selfsame year Scott Joplin turned out Maple Leaf Rag. Eubie had an unlikely background for a composer. The son of ex-slaves, he had dropped out of school at 15. He was the only one of eleven children to live to maturity. Ragtime was regarded as indecent music; his mother never permitted him to play it in the house. Initially, Eubie toured the vaudeville circuit with Singer Noble Sissle. In 1921, with Sissle as lyricist...
...event, sponsored by the Des Moines Register, is known as Ragbrai (pronounced rag-bray), for the Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa. Last week, for the sixth and biggest Ragbrai run, some 5,500 bikers started from the Big Muddy at Sioux City and set out east across the lush, gently rolling heartland to dunk front wheels seven days later in the Father of Rivers at Clinton. En route, along 440 miles of tranquil back-country roads, the sportive pedalers pumped and panted, munched, sang and slurped through 42 towns and hamlets with such names as Unique...
...possible to defend dress codes while still finding it ridiculous that this oddly shaped rag, knotted at the throat, has come to define respectable dress in a man. The necktie did not arrive with any compelling mandate from nature. Its origins were whimsical enough. After the Croatians defeated the Turks in a battle during the 17th century, the victorious regiment was given a welcome in Paris; admiring Frenchmen copied the soldiers' flowing scarves-cravates. Over the centuries, the tie has gone through thousands of fitful and pointless variations: stocks, string ties and once during the 19th century, a crescent...
...more than that, and The Stranger demonstrates his range of abilities. The experimentation of side two is still a bit rough, but Joel should not abandon his experiments. Along with the attempts at diverse types of music, Joel might do well to return with some instrumentals like "Root Beer Rag" and "The Mexican Connection," the two best cuts from Streetlife Serenade...
...comes to Bahia, a spectacularly beautiful area on the Brazilian coast, to work in a brothel. There she meets Martim (Antonio Pitanga), a handsome young member of Bahia's cheerfully disreputable fringe element. By the end of the movie, her simple adulation--she is young enough to clutch a rag doll to her--has won him over from the wiles of more sophisticated women. And so the two are married, surrounded by their friends...