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...popular mainstream vocalists" is the way Will Friedwald sums it up in his kinetic and knowledgeable essays accompanying the set. Along with that considerable distinction, Cole was also a superb keyboard man, mightily influenced by the great Earl Hines and able to hold his own against -- if not precisely surpass -- his mentor and the likes of Art Tatum. When he became a pop superstar, he gradually shed the bass and guitar that had been the foundation of his trio sound. But he never lost his jazz roots...
Turnovers persist in bothering Mitchell. In 26 games last year, he turned the ball over 82 times. So far this season, he has let it go 27 times. He is on a pace to surpass his stats from last year, in the one category he would rather...
...When your back is against the wall, you have to come out swinging," he said, still wearing that quiet smile. To say that, to have the inner strength to speak in such terms, is to set an example of courage which will far surpass anything he ever did as an athlete...
What gets me about this whole thing is the hypocrisy of the anti-boring movement. America is a boring and lazy society and there's no shame in that. Doubtless the Japanese will surpass us in most things if they haven't already. So what? It just means that their culture is adaptively superior to ours. To say that Americans are slothful and boring isn't any sort of value judgement. Boring isn't a pejorative term, it's just a state of being, and there should be no stigma attached...
Back in the U.S., Beamon, who runs a youth sports program in Florida, expressed surprise. Said he: "I was thrown off by not hearing the other name -- Carl Lewis, the most logical person who would either duplicate or surpass the performance." Only a Beamon-busting jump could have overshadowed Lewis' achievements last week. At 30, an age when athletes are often limping into retirement, Lewis is still capable of setting new records, as the 100-m dash proved. After winning the race, he said, "The great thing was, the old man was able to pull...