Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. civilian award. Chambers, who died in 1961, was one of 14 recipients of this year's medal. Others included the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the late baseball great Jackie Robinson, Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr., Actor James Cagney, Country Singer Tennessee Ernie Ford, Writer Louis L'Amour and the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale...
...next page has something that we see a lotta: Bo Derek and Dolly--bodacious tata. This cage holds a singer, her name is Grace Jones Her case is a sad one, she plays with hormones. Now, only in People are such contrasts--Miss Piggy eats, while Mother Theresa fasts... Divine and Bella Abzug pose and groom, (Have they ever been seen in the same room? I'm not saying that they are one and the same. But, when two things differ only in name...
...going to have jobs rated on "comparable worth," where would you place a rock singer as compared with a teacher? Should teachers receive the millions that our entertainers get? Or would the stars be paid teachers' salaries...
...most provocative development in music today is not a song, a singer or a style; it is the sound of the electronic synthesizer, which is boldly claiming a place in the family of instruments. Probably not since Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone about 1840 has a newcomer been so widely embraced by musicians. "A synthesizer works like a magnifying glass," says Chariots Composer Vangelis, who also used several in the score of Blade Runner. "With it, you can go deeper into sound than you can with an acoustic instrument...
Born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann, she trained as a stenographer, and long after becoming a star prided herself that she could still take Pitman shorthand. But she planned to be a singer. Early in life she dropped the first syllable and final letter of her name with a typical explanation...