The United States ' occupation of Haiti, attempts by whites to suppress jazz music, and the widespread belief that president Warren Harding had black ancestry are mingled with a plot in which the novel's hero, an elderly Harlem houngan named PaPa LaBas, searches for a mysterious book that has disappeared with black militant Abdul Sufi Hamid ( whose name reflects that of the Harlem streetcorner radical preacher Sufi Abdul Hamid, a. k. a. Eugene Brown, an early black convert to Islam ), as a group of radicals plans to return museum treasures looted from ancient Egypt to Africa, and the Atonists within the Wallflower Order are trying to locate and train the perfect " Talking Android ," a black man who will renounce African American culture in favor of European American culture.

At the same time, Belew had been tapped by both Talking Heads and their producer Brian Eno to add guitar solos to several tracks on their new album Melody Attack ( eventually renamed Remain in Light ).

He was first introduced in the book Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets, where he invents the " PATSY-2000 " for the science fair.

On the back of the comic, there is a notice reading, " Don't miss our next exciting adventure: Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets, Coming soon to a playground near you ".

Paul's latest project is Baby Elephant, a collaboration with Parliament and Talking Heads keyboardist Bernie Worrell, and longtime Paul associate Don Newkirk.

There is also a secret bonus program giving the strange history of the World Famous Talking Bear.

* Krista Reese, The Name of This Book is Talking Heads ( London: Proteus Books, 1982 ).

The soundtrack is notable for Wenders asking various recording artists — Depeche Mode, U2, R. E. M., Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Can, Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Jane Siberry, etc .— for music to be used in the film ; specifically for the music that they thought they would be making in 1999.

" Talking bullshit " is thus a lesser form of lying, and is likely to elicit a correspondingly weaker emotional response: whereas an obvious liar may be greeted with derision, outrage, or anger, an exponent of bullshit tends to be dismissed with an indifferent sneer.

Hokkaido Dialect Cards ) is the first of a series of Talking Karuta produced by Discovery Creative in Hokkaido Japan which help children and adults alike learn different words and phrases used on the northern island of Hokkaido.

A Talking ATM is a type of ATM that provides audible instructions so that persons who cannot read an ATM screen can independently use the machine.

In addition, Memphis is mentioned in scores of other songs, including " Proud Mary " by Creedence Clearwater Revival, " Honky Tonk Women " by The Rolling Stones, " Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes " by George Jones, " Daisy Jane " by America, " Life Is a Highway " by Tom Cochrane, " Black Velvet " by Alannah Myles, " Cities " by Talking Heads, " Crazed Country Rebel " by Hank Williams III, " Pride ( In the Name of Love )" by U2, " M. E. M. P. H. I. S.

The audio version of The Economist is produced by the production company Talking Issues.

Beefheart is considered to have " greatly influenced " New Wave artists, such as David Byrne of Talking Heads, Blondie, Devo, The Bongos, and The B-52s.

The first two ( an owl and a crow ) are uncertain, but the third — the Talking Cricket that Pinocchio presumably killed earlier — knows that Pinocchio is fine and tells the marionette that he has been disobedient and hurt his father.

They arrive at a small house, and living there is the Talking Cricket, who says they can stay.

* The Talking Cricket ( il Grillo parlante ): the Talking Cricket is a cricket whom Pinocchio kills after it tries to give him some advice.

The product that is using this technology is called Tactile Talking Tablet or T3.

David Byrne ( born May 14, 1952 ) is a Scottish-born American musician and artist, best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1975 and 1991.

Shaffer has appeared in a number of motion pictures over the years, including a small role ( Artie Fufkin of Polymer Records ) in Rob Reiner's This is Spinal Tap, Blues Brothers 2000, a scene with Miles Davis in the Bill Murray film Scrooged and as a passenger in John Travolta's taxicab in Look Who's Talking Too.

Though the success of the Scream trilogy would lead Schreiber to roles in several big-budget studio pictures, Entertainment Weekly wrote in 2007 that " Schreiber is best known for such indie gems as Walking and Talking, The Daytrippers, and Big Night.

Talking Rock is a town in Pickens County, Georgia, United States.

Talking Rock is located at ( 34. 509557 ,-84. 505175 ).

George Bernard " Bernie " Worrell, Jr. ( born April 19, 1944 ) is an American keyboardist and composer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads.

Each October, an event called Talking Tombstones is held at Oakwood Cemetery, where individuals perform as historical figures buried there, in an effort to remember their lives and contribution to the community's history.

* Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library is located on the campus of the Perkins School for the Blind.

Its sibling titles included the direct Viz clone Gas and reprint anthology Talking Turkey.

' Talking with people in the offices of literary periodicals, he often asked: ' When will there be an end to this freedom for lackies who happily walk over corpses to further their own interests?

* 1917 – The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.

* John Ford Noonan ( born 1943 ), American actor and writer for theater, film and television ; authored over 30 plays during 1970s, 1980s and 1990s ( A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, 1979 )

Best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, he has also directed the acclaimed movies Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married, the Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense and a trilogy of Neil Young documentary / concert movies.

By the time of the First World War, the mass advertising and popularity of the Victor Talking Machine Company's Victrolas ( a line of disc-playing machines characterized by their concealed horns ) was leading to widespread generic use of the word " victrola " for any machine that played discs, which were however still called " phonograph records " or simply " records ", almost never " victrola records ".

Talking for more than three hours, he denied possessing any weapons of mass destruction, or any other weapons prohibited by U. N. guidelines.

They played their first gig as " Talking Heads " opening for the Ramones at CBGB on June 20, 1975.

It took until December 1991 for an official announcement to be made that Talking Heads had broken up.

Despite David Byrne's lack of interest in another album, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison reunited for a one-off album called No Talking, Just Head under the name The Heads in 1996.

Talking with the game's greats would become a pattern for Williams, who talked with Hugh Duffy who hit. 438 in 1894, Bill Terry who hit. 401 in 1930, and Ty Cobb against whom he would argue that a batter should hit up on the ball, opposed to Cobb's view that a batter should hit down on the ball.

He has also directed many music videos for groups such as U2 and Talking Heads, including " Stay ( Faraway, So Close!

Talking with his father, the son learns of the constant battle he faces with yearning for the stars at home while yearning for home while in space.

Goldkette recorded for the Victor Talking Machine Company, whose musical director, Eddie King, objected to Beiderbecke's hot-jazz style of soloing ; it wasn't copacetic with the commercial obligations that came with the band's recording contract.

* Tips for Talking to Teens about Sex

The five units of the Central Library — Mid-Manhattan Library, Donnell Library Center, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library and the Science, Industry and Business Library — are all located in Manhattan.

The band then recorded two sides for the Victor Talking Machine Company, " Livery Stable Blues " and " Dixie Jass Band One Step ", on February 26, 1917, for the Victor label.

Subsidiary Communications Authority ( SCA's ) are used to transmit a Minnesota version of the Radio Talking Book Network to disabled listeners around the state, in cooperation with Minnesota State Services for the Blind.

Following his success with Die Hard, he had a supporting role in the drama In Country as Vietnam veteran Emmett Smith and also provided the voice for a talking baby in Look Who's Talking, as well as its sequel Look Who's Talking Too.