Word: singer
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...Thirteenth Tribe (1976), Koestler argued that many Eastern European Jews were descended not from the ancient Semites but from a Turkic national group in Eastern Europe that had converted to Judaism in the Middle Ages. Isaac Bashevis Singer replied, "[He] tries so hard to show that the Jews are not even Jews, he fails also as a writer." Science Writer Martin Gardner, reviewing The Roots of Coincidence (1972), taxed the author with ignoring research that contradicts the claims of parapsychologists. Even Koestler's monumental and erudite The Act of Creation (1964) caused the eminent zoologist Sir Peter Medawar...
...what he is. "I'm a rompin', stompin', piano-playin' son of a bitch. A mean son of a bitch. But a great son of a bitch." Here's to you, then, Jerry Lee Lewis, unreconstructed rocker and mean-mouthed, sweet-souled Louisiana country singer. A new twelve-album set, Jerry Lee Lewis: The Sun Years, covers the glory years from 1956 to 1963 and is assembled with the kind of reverence and archival zeal usually reserved for the cantatas of a J.S. Bach. The collection, sold in this country for under $100, is marketed...
...piano thumpers - Fats Domino, Huey Smith - but none burned with the passion of Jerry Lewis. Sam Phillips, who had started Sun Records in Memphis, sold the contract of his major star, Elvis Presley, to RCA in 1955 for the then unheard-of sum, for a new singer, of $35,000, and he was shopping around for a replacement. Jerry Lee, 21, looked like just the boy. Nicknamed the Killer, to his perpetual displeasure, Lewis sang country, which was not then considered commercially lot. But he also played mean boogie-woogie. He would sit down on the edge of the bench...
...Bretonne (Jean-Louis Barrault), to name just the historical personages aboard. Among the fictional creations are a lady-in-waiting to the Queen (Hanna Schygulla), Her Majesty's snippy homosexual hairdresser, a widow in need of consolation, a judge, an arms manufacturer and an aging opera singer heading for a small role in the provinces. Some know, some suspect, some do not particularly care who is in the coach ahead. Some will have turned off history's highway to pursue their private byways before the royal flight is arrested at Varennes. A few will be present when...
MARRIED. Kris Kristofferson, 46, gravel-throated singer-songwriter (Me and Bobby McGee, Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down) and actor (Heaven's Gate, Rollover); and Lisa Meyers, thirtyish, a recent Pepperdine law school graduate; he for the third time, she for the second; in Malibu, Calif...