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...stroke; in New York City. A three-time Grammy nominee, Turrentine played with Ray Charles, Max Roach and Herbie Hancock early in his career and in 1953 replaced John Coltrane in Earl Bostic's band. He also made forays into pop music, including a 1976 jazz interpretation of Stairway to Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 25, 2000 | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...blob that can mutate but maintain its basic identity." (Think of Liz Taylor in the '80s.) Lynn gave them swelling wall systems that can be easily manufactured in differing configurations. And in the New York City Presbyterian church that Lynn designed with Douglas Garofalo and Michael McInturf, metal stairway enclosures course along the exterior in dynamic, rolling strides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: You Could Call Him Mr. Softee | 7/17/2000 | See Source »

...Life - Beatles (actually you could insert just about any later Beatles song here such as "Yesterday," "Let It Be," etc.) 2. Crazy - Patsy Cline (written by Willie Nelson) 3. Every Breath You Take - Sting/Police 4. Satisfaction - Rolling Stones 5. Be My Baby - Ronnie Spector & Ronettes 6. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin 7. In the Mood - Glen Miller 8. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams 9. Born to Run - Springsteen 10. The Times They Are a Changin'- Bob Dylan

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All-Time Top Ten: The Readers Give Us an Earful | 7/13/2000 | See Source »

...styled scientists and folks on weird quests of self-discovery. They can be creepy, like Kent, but their stories are moving too. Take Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who empathizes with animals because she thinks in images, which, she contends, is how they think as well. She invented the "stairway to heaven," a slaughterhouse design that uses optical illusions to lead cattle calmly to their death, yet has a bond with the beasts born of her experience--terrifying autistic episodes of overstimulation. In theory, the story is ghastly. In practice, it's flat-out beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Eyes Have It | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...they were going to win the war in Vietnam." It would be President Ford who inherited the final convulsion of that tragic war, made indelible by the pictures of desperate Vietnamese on a rooftop stairs trying to get on a departing helicopter. Ford insisted that a replica of the stairway be set up in his Grand Rapids, Mich., museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tribute: Gerald Ford | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

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