Word: toussaint
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...music I play is music the Mardi Gras Indians do. The guys that did this thing-Professor Longhair, Smiley Lewis, Guitar Slim-died off. There was nobody to keep it alive except the few guys who worked with them. Me, James Booker, Huey Piano Smith, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint. I guess I would call my own style barrelhouse with blues and jazz mixtures. Rock 'n' roll...
...much better. For most of the game, the Terriers' coterie of running backs and quarterbacks--B.U. played three quarterbacks to the Crimson's five--battled for the lowest yard per carry average. Not counting Toussaint James, who swept around end for 54 yards in the last minute of play, the Terriers rushed 45 times for a paltry 64 yards...
...Dorsey: Night People (ABC). New Orleans R & B for the '70s, created by peerless Allen Toussaint, sung by a great master of soul...
...well as factual witness; and there he could be very puzzling indeed. The debate on Courbet has been stepped up by a magnificent retrospective that opened this fall at the Grand Palais in Paris and will move to London in January. With a catalogue by Art Historian Helene Toussaint, it brings together more than 140 paintings and drawings, centered around the huge machines that normally hang in the Louvre: A Burial at Ornans and (all 11½ ft. by 19 ft. of it) The Painter's Studio...
...world of art. On the left, the other world of trivial existence, the people, misery, poverty and wealth, the exploited and the exploiters, the people who feed off death." Some of the figures, particularly those on the right, have long been identified - Baudelaire, Proudhon, the critic Champfleury. Professor Toussaint, however, gives a complicated new reading to the painting by suggesting that (for instance) the huntsman on the left is Napoleon III and that the central group is a Masonic allegory, with Courbet as master of the lodge. Whatever this puzzling giant of a painting may have been intended to mean...