Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seen the matchless Katharine Hepburn-Cary Grant-James Stewart movie knows, the next 24 hours constitute a lifetime for Tracy. She takes a compromising midnight swim in the nude with Journalist Macaulay ("Mike") Connor (Edward Herrmann), sheds her fiance, and is reconciled to her ex-alcoholic, ex-husband C.K. Dexter Haven (Frank Converse...
Cambridge of the day offered some idyllic moment--Dexter Pratt, the Village Smithy of Longfellow fame, spent hours daily under the spreading chestnut. And when the tree came down, the schoolchildren of Cambridge had a rocking chair made from its wood, which they presented the poet on his 70th birthday...
...prevent by aborting herself). Art's lonely upbringing was entrusted to an unloving grandmother. He found an outlet in the clarinet at nine and switched to the saxophone at twelve. He proved such a natural that he was soon jamming around town with musicians like Zoot Sims and Dexter Gordon. At 17 he was married and playing lead alto with Stan Kenton...
...Creative Music Studio in Woodstock and River's Soho performance loft, both of which depend on a precarious assortment of grants and private donations for support. Life on the road is still possible, but it takes a lot of luck and effort to overcome a nation's inertial indifference. Dexter Gordon, probably the finest tenor saxophonist to emerge during the Forties, fled to Europe when the American scene began to dry up during the Sixties. Gordon's occasional stateside sorties were inconclusive until he made his highly publicized "homecoming" tour...