Word: chopping
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Marsalis has since performed with these "homeboys," notably at a Hollywood Bowl tribute to Armstrong and at Lincoln Center's Classical Jazz festival, where they played such 1920s-vintage New Orleans numbers as Armstrong's Cornet Chop Suey and Jelly Roll Morton's Jungle Blues. For Marsalis, who had brashly declared in one of his early interviews that "there is no jazz in New Orleans," that was quite a turnaround. He now regrets what he calls his youthful "ignorance" and is delving into that city's musical legacy -- particularly the blues -- with a vengeance...
...ultimate responsibility still rests with parents. The goal should not be -- cannot be -- to screen out every bad word or karate chop from kids' viewing, but rather to make sure TV doesn't crowd out all the other activities that are part of growing up. These counterbalancing influences -- family, friends, school, books -- can put TV, if not out of the picture, at least in the proper focus...
This weekend the congressional and White House budget summiteers will try again to work out an agreement to chop down the deficit. They will meet in the officers' club complex at Andrews Air Force Base for three days. It is no longer just a session on a budget formula. It is an antidote to chaos...
...about pot roast? The comprehensive 44-page index says "pot roast pasta." Huh? Yes, you make this pot roast that sounds delicious, but then you chop it all up and, with its juices, spoon it over a pound of penne or pappardelle. The old pot roast is now actually a stracotto. How modern can you get? You wouldn't want the mashed spuds if you've got the pasta, but let's check anyway. Three listings: the basic one, with sour cream; one that has a whole head of cooked garlic (yum!); and one that is half potatoes and half...
...comes high up on all Chinese name lists ((laughs)). I think, too, he remembers me from the end of 1986 and the student movement at Hefei Institute of Science and Technology. At that time I was vice president ((of the institute)), so he thought I should take the chop for those demonstrations. The second time, he probably said, "Here he comes again, so we should hit him" ((laughs...