Word: styles
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...began in a Village coffeehouse in 1961 where Jo, then a 25-year-old receptionist from Chicago, met Dolph and Teddy. The three hit it off, and the group, including Micah, agreed to live together as a free-style "family," sharing everything, including sex, in Jo's Washington Square Village apartment. Some shared more than others: Jo paid most of the family's communal expenses out of her $60,000 yearly income from stock dividends and a trust fund set up by her father, who owned a sausage-casing company. "We had somewhat of an open family," says...
...sister. He was raised by the family's notions of total freedom; he was kept out of school and picked up his education from the people who gravitated to the storefront seeking food and shelter. The storefront, which the group turned into a factory to produce Tiffany-style lampshades rather than into a coffeehouse, overflowed with dogs, vagrants, hanging lamps, plants, glass-cutting equipment, books, rags and grime...
...Eugene Jennings, professor of management at Michigan State University: "The older employees seem to be blocking up the corporate arteries." More than ever before, these middle-aged middle managers are being replaced by younger ones. The psychological toll, Jennings adds, is severe. "This is not part of the life-style for a middle-management person. It is literally a period of mental shock. They wonder...
...Kulthum was born into a peasant family at Timay el Zahaira in the Nile Delta, where she developed her unique style by chanting Koranic verses for her father. When he took her to Cairo to sing, she was an instant success. Not only was her voice strong, but she perfected a technique of rephrasing passages-she once sang a single line 52 different ways-that drove audiences to rapture. Her repertoire ranged from love songs to political ballads to adaptations of Moslem poetry, including Omar Khayyam's Rubdiydt...
...bear to listen to myself," said Mabel Mercer on her 75th birthday. But every smart pop singer in the past 50 years has listened and learned from Mercer how to shape and pace a lyric. Her unique style of talking a song was developed to compensate for her failing soprano voice. Now, she says, "it's just a noise." Enough, however, to hold some 500 guests spellbound at her birthday party in Manhattan. Mabel's star pupil could not make the party, but he did not forget the singer who "taught me everything I know." Frank Sinatra sent...