Word: sax
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...narrow margin and did even better among slightly older baby boomers. This year Clinton ran ahead of Bush in every age group, but his largest margin was among those between 18 and 24. One reason was Clinton's limber courtship of the young in show-biz terms -- playing his sax on the Arsenio Hall show, for instance, and featuring rock music at his rallies. But recent high school and college graduates facing a bleak employment market had more substantive reasons for abandoning the G.O.P...
...upstairs neigbor rescued my roommates and me from school song illiteracy. As a sax-carrying member of the Harvard Band, he knew the secret lyrics to "10,000 Men of Harvard." And so in the common room of Lionel B-12, my bandie neighbor patiently taught us the sacred words...
...headed a quadruple bill at the Avalon, following Boston blues rockers Morphine. Looking and sounding like something out of a David Lynch movie, Morphine left the crowd a little stunned. With pumping bass and soulful sax, the band, which came close to winning the WBCN Rumble last year, won some converts in the plaid and fratboy crowd...
...November 1959, and Haden has just pulled into New York City. He's keeping fast company, part of a jazz quartet that also includes drummer Billy Higgins, trumpeter Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman, who is exploring the outside edge of the stratosphere with his alto sax. They are opening at the Five Spot, the Manhattan mecca for cutting-edge jazz. It is one of those debut dates that are more like a trial by fire: chops will be checked out, irrevocable judgments passed. Slipping the cover off his bass, Haden, who is 22, looks up at the bar and sees...
...MANHATTAN CALLED THE NEWS in Revue is packing them in by turning today's political headlines into tonight's routines. For instance: the long-running Clinton-Gore road tour has gone sour since the Fab Foursome started getting on each other's nerves. Bill keeps playing that darned sax, and Hillary won't quit with the cookies. Tables are outfitted with ballot boxes, and every night the audience votes for President. At last count, Clinton had won 68 of 70 ballots...