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...Texas home (Jacksonville, pop. 7,000) for New York City in 1946, she had dreams of singing as a mezzo-soprano at the Metropolitan Opera. To support herself while pursuing her aspirations, she found work as a "file analyst" trainee at TIME. Little did Felsher suspect that her trainee stint would blossom into "the most interesting job I could have ever hoped...
Perhaps his sweet tooth does not extend to the syrupy script. Writer and director Leven, a psychotherapist who spent time on the Harvard faculty, was not expecting this acting trinity to descend upon his humble screenplay and is simply unprepared to handle such an awesome burden on his first stint as a director...
Approaching 50, Tim Cranmer tends a fine old house and vineyard in Somerset bequeathed to him by a wealthy uncle. His retirement is not of his own choosing. After a long stint in British intelligence, coinciding with some of the iciest years of the cold war, he has been bounced by his new boss as unsuited for the new world order: "I mean twenty-five years do rather shape the mind, don't they? I'd have thought you'd be far better off agreeing you'd served your stint, and time to find pastures new." Whatever disappointment Tim feels...
...national service abducted him into manhood; an army stint at Cambridge encouraged him to seek, and win, a scholarship to Oxford, where he taught after graduation. But from Fringe on, anonymity would be lost to Bennett, and sensation would press in on this lifelong bachelor in odd ways. All sorts of stray beasts would show up on his doorstep...
Like Jones, McCoy Tyner has toured extensively with a stable group of his own in recent years. Unfortunately, recent performances suggest that Tyner's music is getting stale. The Valentine's Day weekend stint at the Regattabar featured legendary vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, bassist Avery Sharpe, and drummer Aaron Scott, but the long-lived group, seemed to be communicating less than ever. Hutcherson may very well be the greatest talent in the group, but even when soloing he was barely audible above Tyner's majestic accompaniment. Adding to the disjointed feel of the group were Sharpe and Scott, who both have...