Guan spoke faster, his choppy, Chinese-inflected English making him hard to understand.
Gone is the overly twee writing of Gopnik's memoir-inflected works (Paris to the Moon, Through the Children's Gate), and in its place is a succint, convincing, and moving account .
Twenty-one Julys have come and gone since Buffett scored his only Top 10 single, Margaritaville, but every year Parrotheads across the country flock to hear his island-inflected .
Bob Thompson, composer of 'Space Age bachelor pad' music, dies at 88 Bob Thompson, a composer and arranger who supplied swinging bachelors in the 1950s with sophisticated, jazz-inflected tunes that came to be known as "Space Age bachelor pad" music, died May 21 in Los Angeles at age 88.
June 10, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
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