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...jazz. Especially jazz. "I bought a Charlie Parker record, and I thought, "Wow! This is incredible." I tried to learn Parker's licks on the banjo, but I couldn't find the notes." One day, in a high school jazz-appreciation class, the teacher played pianist Chick Corea's Spain -- for Bela, another revelation. "It was just so immediate. It was a light going on and a door opening...
Sharis has already decided to defer his admittance to Columbia Medical School by one year and, if all goes right, the Crimson oarsman will defer one more year while he prepares to represent the United States in the 1992 Olympics at Barcelona, Spain...
...Francisco the chief irritant is a band of 15 or so perpetrators whose nom de guerre is Those Darn Accordions! and who charge kamikaze-style into restaurants, wreaking indigestion on helpless customers with deafening choruses of Lady of Spain. T.D.A.! even threatened to "play" in city hall but was prevented from doing so when engineers warned that the building might collapse from excessive vibration. Instead, it was the board of supervisors that collapsed. "One of the things I love about San Francisco," said T.D.A. ! accordionist J. Raoul Brody, "is that a bunch of dopes like us can get together...
...Francisco is not the only epicenter of this distress. Deborah Norville, new co-anchor on the Today show and a closet accordion player, assaulted her audience with a blunt instrument rendition of the dreaded Lady of Spain. No earthquakes were reported, though the performance succeeded in further sinking the show's shaky Nielsens, while Norville's personal Richter rating slid glissando-style to C below low A, somewhere to the left of the keyboard...
...FAIR. Almost everyone else is coming, but there may not be a U.S. pavilion at the Expo 1992 Universal Exhibition in Seville, Spain. The U.S. Information Agency requested $15 million over three years to help build a display hall. Uh-uh, replied Iowa Congressman Neal Smith, chairman of the House USIA subcommittee: "We are no longer going to construct buildings and then pay to tear them down after only six months." Without funds for architect and construction contracts, warns Marvin Stone, the U.S. commissioner general for the fair, "the project will die this month." Moreover, a snub...