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Word: swings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jazz Workshop through Sunday, is a versatile, unpredictable jazzman. He plays a lot of different instruments, mostly reeds, in a lot of different styles with wildly fluctuating bands. He was into African music in the late '60s, but lately he's gone somewhat commercial, recording nostalgic '30s swing material. It's hard to tell what you'll get here, but when he wants to be, Lateef is a real virtuoso...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC | 8/9/1974 | See Source »

Yuseff Lateef begins a seven day stint at the Jazz Workshop. It is hard to predict where Lateef and his several instruments will take you. His last record, "Part of the Search," was a commercial, nostalgic attempt at the Swing music of the Thirties. It's probably a good idea to listen to WBCN's latest broadcast tonight before you shell out your money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC | 8/6/1974 | See Source »

...William Cohen, may well influence wavering Republicans when the full House acts on the committee's recommendation. The influential roles played in the committee's decision to impeach by its articulate Southern Democrats, Alabama's Walter Flowers, South Carolina's James Mann and Arkansas' Ray Thornton may also swing other Southern Congressmen against the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Fateful Vote to Impeach | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

...peppery 49, Allbritton is a Texas Democrat who has no love for Turncoat Republican John Connally, and was a major backer of the presidential ambitions of Senator Edmund Muskie-partly, friends say, because he has a hankering to swing some weight in big-time politics. Apparently with that ambition in mind, he tried to buy the archconservative Houston Chronicle in 1972, but was turned down because the owners considered him too liberal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Texan Takes the Star | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

...amity?among the nine jurists. Stories about bickering behind the bench have been surfacing regularly. Promoting harmony would not be easy for any Chief Justice now because of the court's delicate ideological balance. There are three consistent conservatives (Burger, Blackmun, Rehnquist), three liberals (Douglas, Brennan, Marshall) and three swing men who are often unpredictable (White, Stewart, Powell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The United States v. Richard M. Nixon, President, et al. | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

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