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...Eunice Waymon (she changed her name so her mother wouldn't catch on to her pop career), the onetime aspiring concert pianist and self-described "diva" had only one hit single--I Loves You Porgy in 1959--but gained a following in the U.S. and Europe for her alternately smooth and gravelly tones, majestic stage presence and maverick opinions. Bristling at mainstream pop-music labels, Simone called her music "black classical" and embraced African folk, gospel, jazz and show tunes. An influential voice in the civil rights movement--she wrote Mississippi Goddam, a bitter response to the murder of Medgar...
Magadanskaya, the vodka served by Stalin to Truman and Churchill at Potsdam, is smooth and bracing. A sip makes Robert Plotkin of BarMedia, a well-known consultant, say, "Oh, my goodness." But it tastes like ... vodka. Its importer, Sylvia Scherer, of West Import & Export in Kenai, Alaska, is marooned near the back of the hall, far from big corporate booths pushing Stoli Cranberi vodka and Tarantula Azul tequila. Scherer struggles to nail down distribution beyond Alaska, California and Georgia. "One of these days everybody's going to discover us," she says. For now, she swims against a purple, berry-flavored...
Lewis’ relationship with the council, now spanning nearly eight years, has not always been smooth...
McCarthy admits that the transition to cooperative living was not always smooth. “The second time I made bread I forgot to put salt in it,” McCarthy says. “Then I got three e-mails that were like, ‘Hey, nice bread.’ It was really embarrassing. When you cook for others you want it to be good, and when you fuck up it’s in a very public...
...instead of smooth sailing into reading period, I find myself stressed, laden with work and impatient for the summer. At least in high school, I could still watch my men play ball every night during finals and APs without a shred of guilt...