Word: gettingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JAZZ FIRST flourished in wide-open towns--New Orleans, Kansas City-- where whorehouses and gambling dens needed "hot music" to keep the customers fired-up and spending. So it's not surprising that jazz musicians have always been obsessed with "paying dues," the tradition of enduring hardships and degrading work...
Inevitably, some New Yorkers' solutions to the problem of getting about were spectacularly original. One Brooklyn man telephoned Gloria McGill, owner of Chateau Stables, to request an elephant fitted with a platform and chair to take him from his home to his job on Staten Island. McGill said she...
The ineffectiveness of the American grain and high technology embargoes is no surprise. Economic warfare during peacetime has a long record of failure dating back at least to the League of Nations' trade sanctions against Italy after Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935. Other current U.S. embargoes...
Now, quite a few leaders of the class of the '70s are about to make their valedictory. "We are all getting close to retirement age," says Shapiro, 63, who in 15 months has to leave the chairmanship of Du Pont, the chemicals colossus. "It will be a challenge for...
In the lobby the ushers are getting their orders: "Be very, very careful. Do not touch any customer. If you take a tip that's up to you, but do not tell anybody." Backstage a honcho of the costume department is pointing out the need for underwear: "I would...