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- 141: Michael Jordan
- ... challenges of raising his three kids. Jordan retired from the Chicago Bulls after 13 seasons and six NBA Championships, including the one he clinched for the Bulls against the Utah Jazz in what turned out to be the final shot of his spectactular sports career. He sent a heartfelt thank you to all the fans in Chicago for allowing him to ...
- 142: Louise Brooks
- ... Brooks “There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!” --Henri Langlois The flapper’s icon, Louise Brooks was a talented silent film star of the Jazz Age. Her rise as a personality and as a film star was in keeping with the central phenomenon of the flapper era. Her trademark haircut, the “black helmet” was worn ...
- 143: Ralph Ellison’s Life
- ... of Jude the Obscure, but The Waste Land seized my mind. I was intrigued by its power to move while eluding my understanding. Somehow its rhythms were often closer to jazz than those of the Negro poets, and even though I could not understand then, its range of allusion was as mixed as varied as that of Louis Armstrong.” (Quoted in ...
- 144: Michael Jordan
- ... he started it. In 1982, the year that Jordan was a freshman at North Carolina University, he hit a game winner much like he did to finish off the Utah Jazz in the NBA Finals last season and to finish off his illustrious career. (P.84) Jack Mcallum ends this fine article with one final point to get across. The greatest ...
- 145: Marijuana And Hemp, The Untold
- ... favor of Marijuana Prohibition by saying: "Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankind. Most marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes." Marijuana Prohibition is founded on lies and rooted in racism, prejudice, and ignorance ...
- 146: Aaron Copland
- ... It was after the success of El Salon Mexico that Copland proceeded to produce what is now considered the epitome of "American" music. He combined his neo-classical schooling with jazz-like syncopation and a new, more "open" use of old chordal progressions. He created Billy The Kid in 1938, producing the first "Western" musical. The score achieved a remarkable balance ...
- 147: Science Fiction In Human Socie
- ... who help them on their voyage. Then there are poems that create fantasies like "Plucking Out a Rhythm." This poem depicts something or someone setting up a room then a jazz band playing but the only thing is that there isn't people play the instruments its just clothes in front of the instruments. Many American writers articulated ideas of future ...
- 148: The Life of Sid Vicious
- ... love my mum." John was the image of his absent father, but tended towards picking up his mom's love for music in a house full of the sounds of jazz, in particular Ella Fitzgerald. Eventually Anne found a new man. His name was Chris Beverly. She later married him. Chris loved John, and made a request to legally adopt his ...
- 149: William Christopher Handy
- ... 1921. His eyesight partially returned, but he became completely blind after a fall from a subway platform in 1943. Handy wrote music during the period of transition from ragtime to jazz. The music he had absorbed during his youth consisted of spirituals, work songs, and folk ballads. His own work consisted of elements of all these in addition to the popular ...
- 150: B. F. Skinner
- ... and he loved build things. One of his inventions included a device that automatically reminded him to hang up his pajamas in the morning. He played the saxophone in a jazz band during high school and played piano until his failing eyesight made it hard for him to read the music. In college, he was very independent, and sometimes even a ...
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