Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faculty and such ostracism has a decided effect on one' self esteem. If your self esteem is low, you will not strive to be the very best. Especially when you are made to feel as if the very best you can be is a basketball player, football player, gospel singer or simply a quota filler...
...spirit moves her. She started out as Anna Marie Wooldridge, then became Gaby Lee and, for a time, Mrs. Max Roach. If all these shifts in appellation suggest a life that has gone through many changes, that's hardly the whole story. They also indicate that this remarkable singer's managers have tried several times to reinvent her to suit themselves. Talking with her now, it is difficult to believe such a self-consciously independent woman would permit anyone to tinker with her name, much less something as precious as her identity. At 63, Lincoln is in full command...
...band's bassist and lead singer Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer Neil Peart, observed as Kelley introduced a number of impersonation acts that roasted the band...
...forget that progressive politics and music once resonated to the same social vibrations. That has never been a problem for Midnight Oil, the Australian outfit with a knack for turning its ideals into pop anthems for the common man. In the group's 1988 hit, Beds Are Burning, singer Peter Garrett warned: "The time has come/ To say fair's fair/ To pay the rent/ To pay our share...
...Singer said recruiting women for tenure-track positions has been a "high priority" with Dean Albert Carnesale and results have been good. "Of the seven people appointed this year for teaching positions, five of the seven were women, one of whom was African American," Singer said...