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...ensemble: from the CEO down, everyone needs to learn to improvise and play off one another. That's the lesson of Jazz Impact, a business-improvement seminar created by Minneapolis, Minn., bassist Michael Gold for clients that include General Mills and Starbucks. "In jazz improv there is a specific tune that we use as the common ground, yet someone can present a unique version of the tune," says Gold. "This type of thinking has to be able to happen for companies to be innovative." During a 90-minute presentation with a live ensemble, Gold shows, with words and music...
...American Dreams" -the aforementioned nostalgia show (also a trend we'll be seeing more of) -looked well-crafted, almost movie-like, but also seemed to hit exactly every cliche note you expect from something set in the early '60s: the Cleaverish white kids discovering their rebellious souls to the tune of Motown, the repressed Betty Crocker mom and authoritarian dad (with a sweet streak, of course) and - there's an FCC regulation requiring this, I think - the Kennedy assassination playing a major role. "Boomtown," a cop show set in LA -sorry, according to the trailer, "the phrase 'cop show' doesn...
Your Middle East peace efforts crumbled. Your health-care plan vanished with grunge rock. But now you can build on your most lasting legacy: obliterating the line between politics and entertainment. Last week you met with NBC to discuss hosting a daytime talk show to the reported tune of $50 million a year. Respectable commentators urged you to pass. Now even your own people are knocking down the idea. But don't listen to the naysayers...
This is why Julia Turner Lowe and her ex-husband Bill Lowe have decided to continue paying their daughter's rent and some living expenses through the end of this year and, if necessary, into 2003--to the tune of $1,000 a month. They are anticipating that their child Naima, 23, who graduates from Brown University this month and wants to follow in the family footsteps of teaching, will need time to find a job, even if she's likely to land one eventually in that growth sector. For now, Turner Lowe is holding off taking any summer trips...
...musician Lay Phyu somehow slipped past the censors an album titled Power 54?a subtly subversive reference to Suu Kyi, who lives at 54 University Avenue. The number was dropped from the title after authorities caught on and ordered a recall. Another band plays Twisted Sister's tune We're Not Gonna Take It but with love song lyrics...