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...back to basics - the 12-bar blues - in the uptempo and deathlessly alluring ?What?d I Say.? There was nothing revolutionary in the lyric, except its daring to be mildly ribald (?Hey, mama, doncha treat me wrong/ Come and love your daddy all night long,? etc.). Nor was the notion of releasing a jazzy, largely instrumental number in two parts; the year before, drummer Cozy Cole enjoyed a two-sided hit with ?Topsy.? What was unusual was the four-part structure: three verses of piano, then four verses of blues patter, then the ?What?d I say? chorus, and finally...
Waving his hands in mock-gangsta motions, the comedian enthusiastically lauded the wide variety of academic specialties at Harvard—from students who are “good at counting,” to historians who can tell “what did Lincoln give America, except for the towncar,” to English concentrators who have “memorized the entire alphabet from...
...Except that his team, the Garber High School Dukes, lost. They always lost. They stunk...
...hour in the dining hall “marinating” post-meal. There was the universe-probing late-night conversation held over a double-decker or a courtyard-imbibed bottle of Two-Buck Chuck. These are not the kids of David Brooks’ world—except that at other times they are precisely...
...That person has no authority over [other human resources heads] except to urge them to adopt certain behaviors and practices,” Touborg said. “It’s part of the autonomy that the schools have always...