Word: stints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jackie Jean Crouch 51 years ago in Kensett, Ark., happens to be the mother of another warbler: Cher. When Mom took the mike at a West Hollywood nightspot, Studio One, last week, Cher and her sister, Actress Georganne LaPiere, were in the audience cheering wildly. For Holt, the stint was actually a refrain. As a youngster, she used to hit the notes on the radio and in saloons across the West. This time around, Holt has hopes of cutting an album and making it big. Says she: "I sound better on tape than in person...
...York during World War II. At 17, she married the photographer Robert Frank. Although she had no formal training as a sculptor, she did study drawing in Manhattan during the '50s under Hans Hofmann, the doyen of abstract expressionist teachers. More important for her work, however, was a stint as a dance student with Martha Graham: the sense of significant gesture in Graham's choreography does seem to have affected the movement of Frank's own sculptures. The best of them possess the unfolding completeness of dance. Her work, in fact, is an ambitious metaphor illustrating the continuity between intelligence...
Philippe Junot, who "works with banks," as Princess Grace puts it, is the son of a wealthy deputy mayor of Paris and onetime chairman of the French division of Westinghouse. Junot junior's various entrepreneurial activities included a stint in California with a fast-food drive-in establishment called Jack in the Box and vague doings as a financial adviser to clients in Paris and Montreal. He has a fondness for fast cars and racehorses, soccer and tennis, and-until he met Caroline -women. The list of his girlfriends, claims Vogue Journalist Gerald Asaria. "would fill several volumes...
...have wheels and a little money to spare. First off is the Newport Jazz Festival, which for the first time in several years is actually taking place in Newport, R.I., not New York. The nation's most famous jazz festival returns home Saturday for a brief three-day stint that will feature some of the biggest and best names in the business Among the acts, you'll be able to see Herbie Mann, Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie and George Benson, with many more of equal stature waiting in the wings. Although Newport is about two hours away...
...Lowe's bemused vocals and fast-breaking bass ("I'm never gonna win any awards for my playing"). The sound-straight, uncomplicated, meant to give you a quick hit of euphoria-has its roots in the defunct British group Brinsley Schwarz. Lowe put in a five-year stint with the Brinsleys, while Edmunds produced some of their songs...