Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take him to Emory. There were triumphs--and put-downs. One year Marshall's middle-school Quiz Bowl team won a contest focusing on drugs and alcohol. Says he: "After we won--and believe me, it was sort of amazing we won--some city-council member made a snide remark that we should have won because we knew more about drugs than anyone. It was an attempt to belittle our accomplishment just because we were black...
...Though the evening was devoted to Ellington's music, Marsalis declined to term it a tribute. Rather, he explained, they just believe in playing his music. He ended his preface to the first set with some comments on the past few weeks on the road, offering a somewhat elusive remark about how this had been the "antebellum" tour, at times more similar to 1795 than 1995. What Marsalis may have been alluding to was Jazz at Lincoln Center's unfortunate tendency to attract race-based criticisms. Despite his nearly evangelical commentaries, Marsalis allowed nothing to take precedence over the music...
...with Kleiber and the late Arturo Michelangeli, had it not been aborted at the first rehearsal. Granted, bootleg recordings of his rare concert appearances have kept more than one Italian label busy, but his extreme reluctance to record has inevitably elicited comparisons with Sergiu Celibidache, well-known for his remark that listening to recordings is much like fornicating with a picture of Brigitte Bardot...
Mansfield has certainly made his share of controversial statements in the past few years. Indeed, some of them, such as his strange theory linking grade inflation with affirmative action, are inflammatory to the point of irresponsibility. The professor may not have distinguished himself by that remark, but it hardly makes him a racist...
...another example of the trespassing of sports and business terms, Fields Criticized Superior Court Judge Lance Ito for a remark made to jurors when dismissing them before the testimony of Detective Mark Furman...