Word: switched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earlier contended that he never compromised the Journal's news columns by deliberately planting stories, he admitted to investigators that he twice wrote favorable columns at Brant's request on companies in which Brant and his clients held stock: Chicago Milwaukee, a railroad holding company, and Digital Switch, a telecommunications manufacturer. Said Winans, who was fired from the Journal after the SEC began its investigation in March: "There is much in my conduct during the last months at the Journal which was wrong ... I stand in judgment of myself as having violated fundamental tenets of my profession...
...Sunday in the Park with George. This George composes bit by bit, or byte by byte. He has created a computerized sculpture, Chromolume #7 (chromo-luminarism is an other critical term for Seurat's technique), that puts on a sound-and-light show at the flick of a switch. Soon he will fall through a visionary's looking glass into the past, to find art merging with dreams on an ordinary Sunday on La Grande Jatte...
...early hits, including One O'clock Jump and Jumpin 'at the Woodside, began as improvised "head arrangements." "We were fooling around at the Reno Club, and Basie was playing along in F," recalled one of his men. "He hollered at me that he was going to switch to D-flat and for me to 'set something.' I started playing that opening reed riff on alto. Hot Lips Page jumped in with the trumpet part without any trouble, and Dan Minor thought up the trombone part. That was it." That was One O'Clock Jump...
...Zola Budd. The 17-year-old may be the fastest female middle-distance runner in the world, but she is having a tough time proving it officially. The reason: she is a white South African as well as a hastily minted British citizen. And that quick switch strikes some as too fast altogether...
With its panelled walls and paned windows, the Lowell JCR provides a perfect intimate setting. Using suspended doorframes to delineate the rooms and having the actors themselves switch the lights add especially nice touches. Intelligent reinterpretation of a strong though difficult script, and strong to stellar performances make for an evening of excellent house theater...