Modern swing dance bands active in the U. S. during the 1990s and 2000s include many contemporary jazz big bands, swing revival bands with a national presence such as Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers ( based in San Francisco ), and local / regional jazz bands that specialize in 1930s-1940s swing / Lindy dance music, such as The Swingout Big Band, White Heat Swing Orchestra, and Beantown Swing Orchestra ( Boston ), The Boilermaker Jazz Band ( Pittsburgh ), the Southside Aces ( Minneapolis ), Gordon Webster Septet ( New York ), Jonathan Stout and His Campus Five ( Los Angeles ) and The Jonathan Stout Orchestra featuring Hilary Alexander ( Los Angeles ), The Flat Cats ( Chicago ), The Gina Knight Orchestra ( Chicago and Joliet, IL ), the Solomon Douglas Swingtet and the Tom Cunningham Orchestra ( Washington, D. C .), Sonoran Swing ( Arizona ), and The Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra ( Los Angeles ).

Contemporary swing bands such as Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers and The Mighty Blue Kings continue the tradition.

" Miss Hurston seems to have no desire whatsoever to move in the direction of serious fiction … can write ; but her prose is cloaked in that facile sensuality that has dogged Negro expression since the days of Phyllis Wheatley … Her characters eat and laugh and cry and work and kill ; they swing like a pendulum eternally in that safe and narrow orbit in which America likes to see the Negro live: between laughter and tears.

Her main challenger for the seat, Nick King ( Conservative ), secured a voting swing against Brooke of 7. 7 % making her winning majority one of the smallest of the 2010 Election.

Her swing recordings with James included " Jubilee ", " I Can Dream Can't I ", Jimmy Dorsey's composition " It's The Dreamer In Me ", and " Song of the Wanderer ".

Her first hit with the band featured Mina performed an extra-loud, syncopated version of the popular swing song " Nessuno " (" Nobody "), which she performed at the first rock festival in the Milan Ice Palace in February 1959.

Her repertoire included swing tunes from Gershwin, Rogers and Hart, and Cole Porter.

During World War II, White joined United Servicemen Overseas, a government program which featured entertainment for troops serving overseas, and performed as the leader of an all female swing band called Thelma White and Her All Girl Orchestra.

Quigley says that he " won't swing from no gallows ," and Ashley-Pitt replies that in that case, Quigley will be shot " while bearing arms against the forces of Her Majesty, the Queen.

Her psi-webs can be used to wrap enemies, or focused into narrow web-lines that she can swing from.

Her powers also became more like Spider-Man, as she fired organic webbing from her wrists ( even using his trademark hand gesture when firing her webs ) to swing from web-lines and trap enemies with sticky webs.

Her psi-webs can be used to wrap enemies, or focused into narrow web-lines that she can swing from.

Her clothes, her hair, everything about her is both graceful and simple.

-- Her choice of one color means she is simply enjoying the motor act of coloring, without having reached the point of selecting suitable colors for different objects.

Her mother wrote Kate of her grief at the death of Kate's baby and at Jonathan's decision to go with the South `` And, dear Kate '', she wrote, `` poor Dr. Breckenridge's son Robert is now organizing a militia company to go South, to his good father's sorrow.

Her best time to date is about 2:30.

Her conclusion has been borne out in the experience of many practitioners: `` short-contact interviewing is neither a truncated nor a telescoped experience but is of the same essential quality as the so-called intensive case work ''.

Her pride is as much at stake as her virtue ; ;

Her fiance, who is with a publishing firm, translates many books from English into Italian.

Her day starts early, but no matter how many pressing letters there are to be written ( and during May, which is National Salvation Army Week, there are plenty ), schedules to be made or problems to be solved, Mrs. Marr's office is always open and the welcome mat is out.

Her husband, who is the son of Alton John Mason of Shreveport, La., and the late Mrs. Henry Cater Parmer, was president of Alpha Tau Omega and a member of Delta Sigma Pi at Lamar Tech, and did graduate work at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, on a Rotary Fellowship.

Her mother is the former Miss Stella Hayward.

Her favorite cocktail dress is a Norell, a black and white organdy and silk jersey.

Her invitation from Premier Joseph Smallwood is reported to be the only one extended to a woman.

Her hair was the color of those blooms which in seed catalogues are referred to as `` black '', but since no flower is actually without color contain always a hint of grape or purple or blue -- he wanted to draw the broad patina of hair through his fingers, searching it slowly for a trace of veining which might reveal its true shade beneath the darkness.

Her whole body is made of highly advanced synthetic jelly silicon and with 60 artificial joints in her face, neck, and lower body ; she is able to demonstrate realistic facial expressions and sing while simultaneously dancing.

Her time spent at the many locations featured in her books is very apparent by the extreme detail in which she describes them.

Her Roman equivalent is the goddess.

Her daughter, born from her head as she was from Zeus's, demigod Annabeth Chase is one of the principal characters.

Her name is the Latinized form of the Greek ( Androméda ) or ( Andromédē ): " ruler of men ", from ( anēr, andrós ) " man ", and medon, " ruler ".

Her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels, appeared in 1848.

Her feast day, December 16, is still kept in many German dioceses.

Her medism in 491 is to be explained by her commercial relations with the Persian Empire.

Her " incredible controversy " is characterized by David Hartwell in the opening sentence of a book chapter entitled " New Wave: The Great War of the 1960s ": " Conflict and argument are an enduring presence in the SF world, but literary politics has yielded to open warfare on the largest scale only once.

Her father, Patrick O ' Leary, characterized her condition as the result of medical incompetence.

Her life, immortalized in the writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero and also, it is generally believed, in the poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus, was characterized by perpetual scandal.

Her first entry glowingly characterized the Double V Campaign as part of the more general fight for individual liberty in American history.

Her personality was characterized by energy, intellect, and a thirst for adventure which shaped her path in life.

Her mother, whom Marjory characterized as " high strung ", was committed to a mental sanitarium in Providence several times.

Her style of play is characterized by taking the ball early and on the rise, powerful ground-strokes, and an aggressive mindset on the return of service.

Her novel characterized the Americans as villains and the Native Americans as " noble savages ".

Her unorthodox musical style has been characterized by critics as a mixture of chamber rock, pop, indie rock, and cabaret jazz.

Her songwriting has been characterized as " a blend of bravado and vulnerability wavers on indefinable borders.

Her acting style was characterized by clear diction and economy of gesture, and represented a major change from the exaggerated style of those days.

Her best friends are Aubrey ( frequently being her accomplice ) and Davan, and she is characterized by nearly always having her hair dyed in odd colours ( a fairly consistent color is purple and her natural black during her first years on Texas ).

Her work is characterized by relatable female protagonists.

' Her writings were characterized by fluency, grace and quiet reflection on nature, domestic and religious life, and philanthropic questions ; but they were too often sentimental, didactic and commonplace to have much literary value.

Her work is often characterized as simple, spare, and emotionally resonant.

Her music features canonic structures and prominent, sometimes exclusive, glissandos, being " characterized by extremely strict, even rigid technical procedures ( canonic structures ), which are often worked out with unusual musical materials ( glissandi )".

Her painting is characterized by individual, square brush strokes with bright unblended colours.

Her life took a course similar to that of other women who have become great mystics, characterized by an early love of prayer and penance, charity for the poor, and an evangelical spirit.

Her work is primarily characterized by research into visual traditions, taboos, and the body of the individual in relationship to social bodies.

Her writing is characterized by an experimental, avant-garde style which questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective.

Her thrillers are characterized by their diverse locations and " around the world " approach.

Her work is characterized by vivid colors, fantastic figures, and strong political commentary.