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Although she thought she might want to be a writer, 18-year-old Tania Aebi was plying Manhattan's canyons as a bicycle messenger. Sensing that his daughter was adrift, Ernst Aebi presented her with an unusual choice: college tuition or a small boat she could sail around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sailing: A True Rite Of Passage | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

Although Paquito does some more Latin-type tunes, including Dizzy Gillespie's "Manteca", the best--and best-performed--Latin tune on the album is "Samba for Carmen", which Paquito dedicated to jazz singer Carmen McRae, Drummer Portinho, late of Tania Maria, drives the whole thing as if he were still in the Rio de Janeiro samba school, Padre Miguel, and fellow Brazilian Claudio Roditi, who has the unenviable position of following Paquito in order of solos, still acquits himself quite well on trumpet...

Author: By Kevin Carter, | Title: From Cuba With Love | 1/18/1985 | See Source »

...Rivera himself spends most of the tune in the upper register of his alto, getting a soprano-like sound from it. His raw and driving post-bop sound combines with Roditi's bright, powerful trumpet as well as Portinho's samba beat and bassist Lincoln Goines, who is another Tania Maria veteran, uses his instrument to duplicate the sound of the surdo drum, the heart and soul of the samba...

Author: By Kevin Carter, | Title: From Cuba With Love | 1/18/1985 | See Source »

...course, these "strong" women are often hard to take seriously, given the baroque fantasy worlds they inhabit. Moreover, the strongest among them embody one of the culture's most retrograde stereotypes: the conniving bitch. Such roles are an "outlet for women and their fantasies of power," suggests Tania Modleski, professor of film and literature at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. "But these fantasies are also negated at the same time, because it's not right for good women to lust for power. So they are put in the person of a villainess." Most feminists, however, seem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: They're Puttin' On the Glitz | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

Admissions Officer Tania B. Friedman said yesterday applications have dropped off about 200 per year since 1979, but this fall it appears that only 25-50 fewer people applied for the 165 slots. Last year the Med School received 3222 applications...

Author: By John F. Bauchman, | Title: Medical School Applications Down In National Trend | 11/9/1983 | See Source »

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