Word: domino
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Though the opera could open its doors soon after a settlement, it is unlikely to do so unless an agreement is reached quickly. Lead singers were released from their contracts on Sept. 30, and many of them doubtless will sign with other companies. "You could get a domino situation," says Baritone Sherrill Milnes. "The famous tend to bump the less famous, all down the line." After another dispute with the orchestra that led to a three-month shutdown in 1969, the Met did start up in midseason. But its performances suffered because many leading singers had already signed elsewhere. This...
...hopping until midnight. Then veteran R&B performer Roy Brown takes the stage with his group of crusty black musicians. Waits moves from the entrance way to the dance floor. This is what he came to hear. Roy Brown's sax player, Lee Allen, used to play with Fats Domino -- one of Waits' heroes...
Some "ridicule the idea of a 'domino theory' as it applies to aggression," Bush said. However, the American failure to "aid the anti-Communist forces in Angola five years ago" helped cause the invasion of Zaire, Cuban and Soviet involvement in Somalia, upheaval in North and South Temen, and the Afghan invasion, he added...
...Orleans. Born in Bogalusa, La., Byrd taught himself to play the piano, imitating such barrelhouse blues players as Kid Stormy Weather. His Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Big Chief combined elements of blues, New Orleans marching music and Caribbean rhythms. Though he never matched the success of Fats Domino and others who popularized the Byrd piano style, recognition finally came in the '70s when his band, the Blues Scholars, scored with a successful tour through Europe and the U.S., and he produced an album, Live on the Queen Mary, with ex-Beatle Paul McCartney...
...last week, as the Soviet invasion of neighboring Afghanistan swelled the Afghan refugee population in Pakistan to 400,000 or more, the Carter Administration was suddenly searching for ways to prop up this tottering domino of Southwest Asia. Nobody in Washington predicted that Pakistan faced the immediate threat of an all-out invasion, although the possibility that Soviet troops might cross the border in hot pursuit of the Afghan rebels could not be ruled out. Some Washington contingency planners feared that the Soviets might use their new base in Afghanistan to encourage unrest among the Pushtun and Baluch peoples...