Word: xavier
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...dolls have actually been around for years. Back in 1977 a Georgia artist named Xavier Roberts, now 28, began to turn out handmade cloth models that he insisted on calling "little people," each different from all others. Roberts invented a syrupy ritual for selling the dolls. They were not made but "delivered" and "adopted" at a former medical clinic in Cleveland, Ga. His employees had to wear nurse's white uniforms, and each prospective "parent" had to raise a right hand and vow undying love. Roberts has sold 250,000 dolls, many to adults for themselves, at prices ranging...
...Xavier Suarez I extend an olive branch but not the laurel of victory. That will never happen as long as he allows himself to be manipulated by the hate-mongers of this community...
Advice heard, advice unheeded. No advance was forthcoming, but Hirt passed along a horn to Wynton, who made his first public appearance the following year, blowing the Marine Hymn during a recital at the Xavier Junior School of Music. Over the next decade, following a few years of preadolescent musical indifference, teen-age funkifying, intense jazz practitioning and a little professional seasoning with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Wynton Marsalis found himself with a major-label record contract. His debut album has sold about 125,000 copies-a surprisingly strong showing for a jazz record-and pulled down...
...regime, and subsequently served to sunder the bereaved family. In 1980, only a year after the revolution, the newspaper was paralyzed by a struggle between family members who supported the new Sandinista government and those critical of its Marxist-Leninist tendencies. The conservatives won, and Chamorro's brother Xavier, editor of La Prensa, left to form his own newspaper, taking most of the staff with him. Today Chamorro's widow, his brothers and sisters and four children are arrayed in almost equal numbers on opposing sides of the country's political battleground...
...Chamorros, each with a different editorial line. La Prensa (circ. 56,000) is now jointly edited by Chamorro's eldest son and namesake, Pedro Joaquin, 32, Chamorro's cousin Pablo Antonio Cuadra, 71, and uncle Jaime Chamorro, 49. El Nuevo Diario (circ. 48,000), edited by Xavier, 50, is solidly progovernment. Barricada (circ. 80,000), edited by Chamorro's youngest son, Carlos Fernando, 27, is the official paper of the Sandinista movement...