Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sure, I could know the history of the blues. I could tell you that it grew out of sharecroppers' songs in the Mississippi Delta, and that the patron saint of those gritty Delta blues is guitar virtuoso John Lee Hooker. I could tell you how the blues followed the sharecroppers as they looked for jobs up North, first in Memphis, where the blues would fuse with country music to create rock and roll, and then up to Chicago, where it would settle into a pulsing rhythm and produce the likes of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf...
...never seen a Cirque du Soleil show in your life, the experience is priceless. There are only four productions currently on stage in the U.S.--"O" at Bellagio, "Mystere" at Treasure Island in Las Vegas, "La Nouba" in Orlando and "Alegria" at the new Biloxi resort in Mississippi. I've seen the first three and "Mystere" is definitely my favorite--but that, perhaps, is because it was the first one I saw. Performed with live music (a combination of techno and opera), each show is an apocalyptic circus of startling imagination. Everything is designed to be an illusion--to take...
TRENT LOTT Labors months for budget deal, ends up with table scraps. But plenty o' pork for Mississippi...
...currently working on a film on a Mississippi family that is struggling with mental illness, as well as a film on Hillary Rodham Clinton's race for the New York senate seat...
...Deke was the jock house all right, but this was no Mississippi State," says Deke member J.P. Goldsmith, who was a year behind Bush at Yale. "Every body could read and write, everybody could wear a neck-tie and everybody went to class...