Word: tuba
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Lipsky wisely zeroes in on a few cadets. "Whitey" Herzog is a studly, overachieving sergeant. "Huck" Finn (everybody at West Point has a nickname) is a malcontent who signed on just to play football. The book's most affecting character is George Rash, the antithesis of huah, a tuba-playing loner in the world capital of male bonding. Take a good look: this is the face America turns to most of the world, and until now it's one that most of us have never seen. --By Lev Grossman
...time Trent was ready to start the seventh grade, his family had moved to Pascagoula, where his father got a job as a pipe fitter in the shipyard. Trent was too small for football, so he played tuba in the band. He had such a space between his front teeth that he was nicknamed "Gap." But he was smart and friendly, discreetly helping classmates with homework and lavishing attention on kids like himself who weren't athletic or attractive. "And you know what?" he once told Time. "Turns out we were the majority...
...stints through CompHealth. Now he and his wife Frances crisscross the country in a Dodge pickup, towing their one-bedroom, fifth-wheel camper. This summer they camped in the Painted Desert, 70 miles east of the Grand Canyon, while Huneke worked in a government-run Navajo health clinic in Tuba City, Ariz. "It's more challenging," he says, "but really it's more interesting...
What Mogt makes of it is called nortec, a new breed of music that mixes traditional Mexican norteno and tambora riffs on the accordion, tuba and drums with electronica. In the two years since nortec was born, it has become the dominant sound of Tijuana's cool set. But in the same way that rock 'n' roll is more than just the sum of a few chords, nortec has expanded well beyond some creative samples and a break beat. Graphic artists, fashion designers and filmmakers have been inspired to shrug off Tijuana's reputation as a cultural void and address...