Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Snowball: Dexter Gordon, Round Midnight...
...bebop pushed jazz away from melody and into the ionosphere of improvisation, French intellectuals were happy to welcome these black American outlaws to Paris after World War II. Bud Powell, the pathfinding bop pianist, settled there in the '50s, made friends and musical history and went a little crazy. Dexter Gordon, a crucial link in tenor-sax bop between Lester Young and John Coltrane, spent some time on the Left Bank as well. Now Gordon, 63, returns to play an American jazzman in Paris whose resume blends incidents from his, Powell's and Young's lives...
Sixteen hundred freshmen implies 1600 freshman stories. Some are funny; most are ordinary. Once in a rare while a freshman story will embody the absolute essence of mortal terror and existential nausea, a crash dive into the dark firmament of human life. In these stories the inscription above Dexter Gate reads not "Enter to grow in wisdom," but instead "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here...
Returning players to watch: Rich Comizio(HB), Jim Crocicchia (QB), Dexter Desir (DT), JimFangmeyer (DB), Jeff Fortna (LB), Brad Heinz (SS),Brent Novoselsky (TE), Ken Saunders (WR)Week 10: Yale
Returning players to watch: Rich Comizio (HB), Jim Crocicchia (QB), Dexter Desir (DT), Jim Fangmeyer (DB), Jeff Fortna (LB), Brad Heinz (SS), Brent Novoselsky (TE), Ken Saunders (WR) Week 10: Yale...