Word: crouching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hall on Sunday evening before its return to New York. The LCJO is the 17-piece touring orchestra of Jazz at Lincoln Center, the jazz program founded four years ago as a department of Lincoln Center. Under the artistic direction of Marsalis and aided by the insights of Stanley Crouch and Albert Murray, Jazz at Lincoln Center has become the most comprehensive jazz program of its kind with a year-round series of lectures, films, concerts and tours. Marsalis's role has expanded recently to include conductor and music director of the LCJO, and his charismatic presence was as much...
...forward to find out what had happened. When I got to the head of the column, I saw a knot of Vietnamese huddled around a groaning soldier, a medic kneeling at his side. An ARVN noncom gestured toward the creek. Another small figure lay there in a fetal crouch. His head was turned sideways, and the creek flowed across his face. This man was dead. We had been ambushed. We had taken casualties from attackers who had vanished before we had ever seen them. The whole cycle--silence, shots, confusion, death and silence again--was over in a couple...
...highlands of Papua New Guinea, in a village near Goroka, the warriors, all but naked, smear their bodies with a pale mud and don surreal mud masks. Taking up clubs and spears and bows, they crouch and advance, ghostly, out of the Stone Age (which they inhabited until the day before yesterday) and into a clicking horde of tourists from a cruise ship that docked on the coast this morning. The "mud men" mime ferocity for a little while; then they mingle shyly in the crowd of rich white aliens and try to make sense of the paper money...
...Jackson is all grown up now -- married, with legal problems, moaning and groaning about the world like any bloke with a hard hat and a lunch bucket. During the recording sessions for HIStory, gospel singer Andrae Crouch, who appears with his choir on several tracks of the CD, took time out to pray for Jackson. Says Crouch: "My singers and I gathered around him and prayed that everything would settle and all the sparks would stop." The hype surrounding HIStory is more like a four-alarm fire, a marketing campaign that will blaze through Christmas 1996. Crouch should...
...STANLEY CROUCH CRITIC...