Word: trumpets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...snack on biscuits shaped like Bentley sedans, this had been a quiet season. The Trumps have split but are now too poor by local standards to make much of a splash. There had been no divorce to equal that of Peter and Roxanne Pulitzer, which featured cocaine, a trumpet and a sexual threesome...
...domestic front, the attacks should be even stronger. The Democrats should relentlessly trumpet Bush's idiotic "no new taxes" pledge all across the airwaves. If the jobless rate continues to climb, they should focus on issues of prosperity and the increasingly uneven income distribution of the 1980s. The Democrats must avoid calling for massive increases in social spending and affirmative action programs, but popular Republican attacks on the tax-and-spenders can be answered with attacks on Republican "borrow-and-spend" economic policy...
Despite his parlous political condition, Bush continued to sound his uncertain trumpet on behalf of Republican candidates. A few gave a polite "thanks, but no thanks" to his offers of assistance, a sure sign of slippage. Vermont Representative Peter Smith even used a presidential appearance on his behalf to dissociate himself from Bush's policies. But most G.O.P. candidates stood dutifully beside their President, smiled and hoped for the best. None could accuse Bush of shirking. From May Day to Election Day, he made more than 100 stops for 63 candidates and helped raise about $80 million in campaign funds...
Brian Hecht's music direction is adequate, but the ensemble had problems with balance--lines and voices often get lost. The transition between numbers is fairly smooth, though, and the four band members, particularly Ken Pasternak on trumpet, bring zest to the otherwise standard score...
...took time off from his normal assignment editing stories in the Nation section to interview up-and-coming jazz players and industry experts. Then he spent hours with Marsalis in his home, jazz clubs, dressing rooms, limousines and even on the stage of a Harlem theater, where the trumpeter was recording a classical album. Along the way, Sancton benefited from their shared love of the music and common Louisiana roots: he and Marsalis went to the same New Orleans high school. One night while the two men were talking in Marsalis' living room, the trumpeter's goddaughter Adorea, 2, called...