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...strings' reputation. But with the music's more ambitious players looking for ways to broaden jazz's sonic palette after a decade dominated by neotraditionalism, strings are back (the hipster vogue for lounge music probably hasn't hurt). The boomlet began with last year's McCoy Tyner recording of Burt Bacharach tunes--an appropriate enough context--and continues with new albums by Wynton Marsalis and the 29-year-old Puerto Rican-born tenor saxophonist David Sanchez, both on Columbia. Marsalis' record, The Midnight Blues: Standard Time Vol. 5, is his first standards album since 1991 (despite the title...
...From Here to Eternity (1953) Sinatra's comeback film is a great, great weeper. Frank, as third banana to Burt Lancaster and Montgomery Clift, turns in his best performance for $8,000 -- and netted the Oscar. Beyond the seaweed scene, this is also Clift at his tragic best. See it again...
...White House has already invoked the separate notion of Executive privilege in an attempt to screen aides Bruce Lindsey and Sidney Blumenthal from Starr. Extending a similar privilege to the Secret Service would be novel, says Burt Neuborne, former legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, but not unreasonable. "It has all the hallmarks of other privileges, such as the marital and clergy privileges. Without it, you run the risk of injuring what is a tremendously important relationship." Not everybody is convinced. "The presidency comes with a lot of perks, but this one is just over the top," says...
...series also testifies to the stream of musical performers who haven't heard the form is dead. Why isn't there a new show each year for Martin Short, who wowed Encores! audiences in Burt Bacharach's Promises, Promises? Occasionally a supreme thrush like Judy Kuhn, Judy Kaye, Rebecca Luker, Faith Prince, Debbie Gravitte or Kristin Chenoweth gets a cushy job on Broadway, but few new shows give these beguilers a chance to wrap their pipes around classic pop. Encores! does (though it pays just $700 a week for stars and chorus boys alike). "I love the concept," says Williams...
...lied. Americans can withstand quite a bit of nonsense and double-talk from their leaders, but I believe they will not stand for a bald-faced lie. I encourage people to hold in check their support of the President until all the facts are known. JIM BURT Meriden, Conn...