Word: statesmen
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...Pablo Casals whose performances, like fine wine, improve with age. And as musicians train their muscles for ever longer careers, an unprecedented number of older talents reign on the concert scene. While prodigies as young as 6 draw crowds with their youthful showmanship, many of music's eldest statesmen are over 80--and still playing their best...
DIED. JAKE HESS, 76, Southern gospel pioneer and early influence on Elvis Presley; in Opelika, Ala. The youngest of 12 children, Hess began singing in 1948 and starred in the seminal Christian music group the Statesmen Quartet. As a teenager in Memphis, Presley often attended Statesmen shows, and Hess later sang backup on the King's albums...
...experiment to determine the answer to this question. The merchandise the Dear Leader is hawking isn't really a dog that won't hunt, of course?it's another phony nuclear deal. And the credulous buyers aren't simpletons at a county fair?they're top Western and Asian statesmen. Given the high stakes in this sting and the sophistication of the intended victims, you'd think the game would have been shut down before now. But you'd be wrong. The latest hapless steps toward another session of "six-party talks" in the North Korean nuclear drama, in fact...
...rush outside, roll up their sleeves and flop on a lawn or bench for a London broil. All that fair skin takes a ruthless incinerating; by day's end, the only color anyone's wearing on face and arms is pink. I guess, considering the caustic images of American statesmen and media figures in the shows I saw over there, my face should have been...
...Japan: 1853-1964, has been inventing?and reinventing?itself with a speed that has astonished, amused and terrified the world. For example, he writes, just a generation after topknotted samurai pleaded with U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry to take his "black ships of evil" back where they came from, Japanese statesmen in tailcoats were cheerfully entertaining Western diplomats with rounds of whisky and whist...