The familiar pounding of six Sabar drums drew nearly every
villager to a pulsing circle of dancers. Small children rushed to
the center of the circle, eagerly starting the first dance
performance of the evening.

Diana Ross
“Blue”
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Most mothers soothe their newborns to sleep with nursery rhymes
or seemingly innate lullaby standards. In 1971, just months after
leaving The Supremes, Diana Ross lulled her month-old Rhonda to
dreamland by singing light-hearted versions of songs about domestic
violence, depression and betrayal popularized by Billie
Holiday.

Chad Stevens adjusts the harness connecting him to his
inexperienced student and conducts yet another examination of the
equipment that will save two lives in the next few minutes.

Shoveling horse manure in Los Feliz does not typically serve as
a gateway into movie stardom, unless your name is Tab Hunter, the
Warner Bros.’ strategically devised heartthrob of the 1950s.

With eight reporters on the scene, the Daily Bruin fulfills
its yearly duty and offers to everyone who was (all 60,000) and
wasn’t there the fourth annual Coachella diary.

Though the UCLA Library recently announced the acquisition of
the Isadora Duncan Special Collection ““ spending just under a
million dollars of donated funds ““ they do not intend on
exhibiting the resource material until next fall.

Thirty years ago, a car bomb killed a former ambassador to the
U.S. and his colleague as they drove to work at the Institute of
Political Studies in Washington, D.C.

A monk who blinded himself in order to resist temptation.
Women demand the right to divorce the husbands who abandoned
them.
The emergence of a 17th-century school of miniaturist
painters.