Early in his career, Miller was accused of being simply imitative of Pastorius, but has since more fully integrated the latter's methodology into his own sound.

The merger plans were discarded in May 2005, allegedly because Bogdanchikov did not wish to take a lesser role in the integrated company answering to Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller.

In high school, Orbison and some friends formed The Wink Westerners, an informal band that played country standards and Glenn Miller songs at local honky-tonks, and had a weekly radio show on KERB in Kermit.

He continued to write novels that were banned ; along with Tropic of Cancer, his Black Spring ( 1936 ) and Tropic of Capricorn ( 1939 ) were smuggled into his native country, building Miller an underground reputation.

It was awarded and nominated for numerous awards, including six American Library Association awards, a nomination for an Eisner Award, won Winick his first GLAAD award, has been praised by creators such as Frank Miller, Neil Gaiman, and Armistead Maupin, and has been incorporated into school curricula across the country.

Bangor is mentioned in King of the Road, a country song by Roger Miller.

Brown's first country house project was the remodeling of Croome Court, Worcestershire, ( 1751 – 52 ) for the 6th Earl of Coventry, in which instance he was likely following sketches by the gentleman amateur Sanderson Miller.

Burke returned to his country roots with the release on September 26, 2006 of a 14-track country album titled Nashville, produced by Buddy Miller.

Burke was joined by a host of top country stars and backed by Buddy Miller and his band at the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville, Tennessee on September 25, 2006 for a one-off concert to celebrate the release of Nashville.

In the country music field, singer-songwriters like Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Merle Haggard, Roger Miller, Billy Edd Wheeler, and others emerged from the 1940s through the 1960s, often writing compelling songs about love relationships and other subjects.

About 1857, Miller supposedly married an Indian woman named Paquita ( she may have been a Modoc Indian, and the relationship was probably that of a " country wife ") and lived in the McCloud River area of northern California ; the couple had two children born in California or Oregon.

Bierce, who once called Miller " the greatest-hearted man I ever knew " also is quoted as saying that he was " the greatest liar this country ever produced.

It presented country music entertainers including Roger Miller, George Jones, Charlie Rich, Buck Owens and some, like Joe Maphis, who seldom received network exposure.

Sweet Dreams ( 1985 ), on the country singer Patsy Cline and Everybody Wins ( 1990 ), with a screenplay by Arthur Miller based on his play were his last films for the cinema.

Miller is little-remembered today, however in the 1920s he recorded the song, " Lovesick Blues " which was later a major hit for country singer Hank Williams.

* May 1932: Just one day after the Lindbergh baby was discovered murdered, the prolific country recording artist Bob Miller ( under the pseudonym Bob Ferguson ) recorded two songs for Columbia on May 13, 1932, commemorating the event.

When Miller expressed irritation at this line of questioning, Matthews pressed Miller with the question " Do you believe now – do you believe, Senator, truthfully, that John Kerry wants to defend the country with spitballs?

Miller found that the simple-structured melodies and storylines in country music songs could be adapted to the pop music market.

The Men: Ernie Miller, America's top acrobatics pilot, with the skill to fly low, fast, and deadly ... blackmailed into choosing between his country and the woman he loves.

Tourist attractions include the Sammy Miller Motorcycle museum, situated on the corner of Stem Lane, which is regarded as the leading collection of motorcycles and accompanying memorabilia in the country.

A number of notable artists in country music died during the decade, including Twitty, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Roy Acuff, Roger Miller, Dottie West, Rich

In 1820, during the struggle for independence, British-born General William Miller hoisted in Tacna the first flag that represented the emerging country.

Roger Miller was the first artist to have a hit with the song, peaking with it at No. 12 on the US country chart in 1969.

Miller to write the answer song, " It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels ") which became the first hit single for pioneer female country vocalist Kitty Wells.

Girardot, Miller and Liu ( 2001: xxxi ) explain, " earlier discussions of the Daoist tradition were often distorted and misleading — especially in terms of the special Western fascination with the ' classical ' or ' philosophical ' Daode jing and the denigration and neglect of the later sectarian traditions.

Bobby Hatfield was found dead in his hotel room in Kalamazoo, Michigan on November 5, 2003, half an hour before he was due to perform a concert with Bill Medley at Western Michigan University's Miller Auditorium.

Groups often perform at the downtown State Theatre, Western Michigan University's Miller Auditorium, and Wings Stadium.

Aoki has said that he wanted to bring martial arts to the same level of attainment as the works of great Western artists such as Beethoven, Van Gogh or Dostoyevsky, or the American writers he admired, notably Henry Miller, Jackson Pollock or Walt Whitman.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a 1971 American Western film starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, and directed by Robert Altman.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller was acknowledged as the eighth best film in the Western genre.

Setting out to become an artist, Miller received his first published work at Western Publishing's Gold Key Comics imprint, on the licensed TV-series comic book The Twilight Zone drawing the story " Royal Feast " in issue No. 84 ( June 1978 ), and " Endless Cloud " in No. 85 ( July 1978 ).

One-time Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter recalled Miller going to DC Comics after having broken in with " a small job from Western Publishing, I think.

* Helen Markley Miller, writer of historical and biographical fiction for children about the Western United States

Residents in the Eastern two-thirds attend Rocky Point and the Western third attends Miller Place.

* Ranger Bill Miller, silent Western film actor

The award was first presented under the name of Best Country & Western Album in 1966 to Roger Miller for Dang Me / Chug-A-Lug and was discontinued the following year.

Abraham H. Miller, who won a Pi Sigma Alpha Award from the Western Political Science Association for his statistical refutation of some of the Commission's data analysis, stated, " There is considerable reason for rejecting the sociological and popular cliché that absolute or relative deprivation and the ensuing frustration or despair is the root cause of rebellion.

In 1938, the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas ruled the statute unconstitutional in United States v. Miller.

Skull, as illustrated in Gerrit Smith Miller | Miller's Catalogue of the Mammals of Western Europe ( Europe exclusive of Russia ) in the collection of the British Museum

Bob Wills, the King of Western Swing, was also influenced by Miller ( see the sound file above with Will's singer Tommy Duncan singing " Blue Yodel No. 1 " in 1937 ) In the early 1920s African American Winston Holmes started a record label, Merritt Records, and was a performer himself.

He meets famous Western movie actor " Wyoming Bill " Kelso ( Denny Miller ), who gives Bakshi an autograph.

While some critics criticized the film's depictions of violence and greed — such as death scenes, Kate's speech, and the gremlins ' gluttony — for lacking comic value, scholar Charlotte Miller instead interpreted these as a satire of " some characteristics of Western civilization ", suggesting that Westerners may take too much satisfaction from violence.

Although Carl Jung, Otto Rank and others explored aspects of the spiritual and transpersonal in their work, Miller notes that Western psychology has had a tendency to ignore the spiritual dimension of the human psyche.

* MacRobertson Miller Airlines, a Western Australian airline that operated from 1934 into the 1980s

Notable advances in Shuowen research have been made by Chinese and Western scholars like Ma Zonghuo ( 馬宗霍 ), Ma Xulun ( 馬敘倫 ), William G. Boltz, Weldon South Coblin, Thomas B. I. Creamer, Paul L. M. Serruys, Roy A. Miller, and K. L. Thern.

* Western American: including important collections of work by the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer based on his 1832-34 journey to the Missouri River frontier, and by Alfred Jacob Miller, also illustrating the West of the 1830s.

In 1964, he returned to attend graduate school at Western Kentucky where he was encouraged to pursue acting by instructor D. Russell Miller.

* 1955 ( 6 ) Bing Crosby Pro-Am Invitational, St. Petersburg Open, Masters Tournament, Western Open, Miller High Life Open, Cavalcade Of Golf