Word: regente
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...passed quickly from dreaming in the arms of the reigning regent of country music to jazzier reveries. When he was 15, his father took him to a concert in Omaha that featured Lester Young and Parker, and then and there, he says, "it was pretty much decided inside my soul that jazz was what I was going to do. It was like having the music born inside...
...shareholders who crammed into Time Warner's annual meeting, held this year in Beverly Hills' Regent Beverly Wilshire, had more than financial statements on their minds. Police representatives and other critics blasted the company for releasing black rapper Ice-T's Body Count album and its Cop Killer cut, which contains such lines as "Die Pig, Die!" During the five- hour session, actor Charlton Heston denounced Time Warner for, among other things, shipping the compact discs to radio stations in miniature body bags. (A company spokesman said the bags were in keeping with the theme of the album, which includes...
...Vogue, in the downtown area alone; and nearly that many recording studios. Representatives of rival record companies prowl the streets in major- label wolf packs, looking for the next bust-out band: Heard War Babies yet? Checked out Mudhoney? Get on it, and get with it. As Steve Slaton, regent of the local deejays, puts it, "Seattle seems to be the center of the musical universe. It's just the real deal...
...state's citizens -- black and white, Creole and Cajun -- also share an amazing dedication to the pursuit of good times. It is a tradition that goes back to the state's original patron, Philippe, Duke of Orleans, the notorious carouser, drinker and libertine who ruled France as regent from 1715 to 1723 and gave his name to Louisiana's major city. For the duke, writes a French historian, "pleasure was the goal and festivity the means of expression...
...glare. From the 12 o'clock position, an enormous red-orange flame flared beyond the halo; smaller "prominences" appeared at the 3 and 6 o'clock positions. Murmurs of wonder rose from the shivering crowd draped in the steel-gray light. "Mind blowing," said Edward Kuba, University of Hawaii regent. "Wonderful, wonderful," pronounced Sony chairman Akio Morita, one of several VIPs present, as he gazed through a new video camera from his company. Then, with stunning suddenness, the four minutes of totality ended, another diamond ring appeared, and the shadow of the moon could be seen fleeing across the Pacific...