Word: willow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Wednesday, like almost every Wednesday for the past decade, The Fringe arrived at The Willow Jazz Club in Somerville around 9:30 to set up. Garzone and Gullotti walk in first, snapping on the lights, greeting the waitress, hauling in their equipment...
Garzone puts down his sax case and goes through a door to the other half of The Willow--the bar. When he opens the door, the TV can be heard on top of some stilted conversation. There's only one person at the bar when Garzone buys a scratch ticket from a machine. "The jazz scene around here is very dead," he says. "The town and the people gave up on it. When the clubs starting closing, a lot of the musicians gave up and moved...
...novel Orlando, inspired by Woolf's love for Vita Sackville-West, is a gay lark disguised as a historical biography. Centuries and genders fly past, each one bending like a willow to accommodate Woolf's puckish feminist insight and hindsight. Potter's movie, faithful in spirit to the book, is something else. It is, in the best sense, a travesty, a masquerade, a cross-dressing comedy of eros. Yet moviegoers do believe in Orlando, in the breadth of its canvas, the immediacy of its emotions, the palliative power of its wit. They can swim in its gorgeous images: the fruit...
...churches that are booming -- Willow Creek Community Church near Chicago, for example, or the 429 congregations cloned from Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa, California -- do not resemble buttoned-down temples of Wasp propriety. Ministers themselves talk of being "customer oriented" and attend seminars to become "church growth" experts. Jeans are as welcome as suits and ties; theater seats replace pews. Instead of using hymnbooks, congregations sing lively, if saccharine, choruses with words projected on a screen. Worship may include skits, audience participation or applause...
...video game, was the first to explore the new technique. In the Steven Spielberg-produced Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), a computer-generated knight wielding a sword leaped out of a stained-glass window and menaced a priest. Morphing, the big news in special effects, made its debut in Willow (1988): a reclining tiger is smoothly transformed into a sleeping woman...