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  PBS - THE WEST - Looking Glass/Allalimya Takanin
Looking Glass was the war chief who, along with Chief Joseph, directed the 1877 Nez Percé retreat from eastern Oregon into Montana and on toward the Canadian border.
Nevertheless, General Oliver Howard believed that Looking Glass would soon join the fighting, and he sent a detachment of troops to arrest him.
That same day, Looking Glass set out to join Sitting Bull's band in Canada, but before he could make it to the border, he was killed by a Cheyenne scout.
www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/i_r/looking.htm   (355 words)

  
 "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)"
Looking Glass cut the song at least three times, first as a part of their demo and then at an unsuccessful session in Memphis.
Looking Glass suffered from a problem common to many groups -- a wide rift between their live sound and their sound on vinyl.
People came to Looking Glass concerts expecting the same kind of New York pop sound they'd heard on "Brandy." They'd hear that sound, but it was mixed in with hard-rock remnants of the boys' bar-band background.
www.superseventies.com /1972_9singles.html   (742 words)

  
 Looking Glass
During The Nez Percé War, Looking Glass was one of the war chiefs who helped to lead and protect the Nez Percé during their long, withering flight to freedom across the Canadian border in 1877.
Looking Glass, known to his people as Allalimya Takanin, was born about 1832, in what is now western Montana.
Following the battle of Big Hole, Looking Glass lost much of his prestige as a war chief and military leader for his costly mistake, and was replaced by war chief Hototo (Lean Elk) and the administrative chief, Joseph.
www.u-s-history.com /pages/h3886.html   (2603 words)

  
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looking glass wants to thank everyone who came out to support the band 3/14 at the new union.
on a completely different subject, looking glass had a break out show at crossroads college on 3/16 and are nothing but excited for things to come.
looking glass is assembling and moving foward with their ministry.
www.angelfire.com /band/lookingglass/archive.html   (778 words)

  
 New Page 1
Looking Glass Adventures: By Julie Campbell, This message is approved by Fearless Leader.
Looking Glass Bluegrass Band has been busy recording our new CD, “Bluegrass Point of View.” The CD should be ready for release before the end of June; however, until then a pre-mixed, pre-mastered “early edition” Sampler is available.
Looking Glass and Lost Highway were both among the featured bands at the first annual Long Beach, WA Bluegrass Festival April 1-3.
www.lookingglassbluegrass.com /news.htm   (2011 words)

  
 Looking Glass (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Looking Glass is a 1970s pop music group best known for their hit songs "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)" and "Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne".
Looking Glass Servers are publicly accessible servers for performing routing queries, used to troubleshoot routing issues across the Internet.
Looking Glass Township is a subdivision of Clinton County, Illinois.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Looking_Glass_(disambiguation)   (229 words)

  
 Looking Glass, Nez Perce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Looking Glass was the war chief who together with Chief Joseph lead the Nez Percé peoples retreat in 1877 from the east of Oregon into Montana and then further to the Canadian border.
Despite this General Oliver Howard thought that Looking Glass soon would be fighting so he sent a troop to arrest him.
Looking Glass managed to escape and came together with Joseph, just what Howard was afraid of.
hem.passagen.se /native/Lookingglass.htm   (244 words)

  
 Looking Glass (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Looking Glass was an American pop music group of the early 1970s that was part of the Jersey Shore sound.
Looking Glass had one #1 hit the week of August 26, 1972 with "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)".
After the official disbanding of Looking Glass in 1974, two of the members went on to form the heavy metal band Starz in 1976.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Looking_Glass_(band)   (188 words)

  
 The Looking Glass - Spring/Summer 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Look for selection and styles to grow this summer, soon Savvy Shoppe will add Via Spiga as brands in their collection.
Whether you’re promoting your friend’s rock band, your sorority just went through rush or you’re otherwise involved in one of the hundreds of organizations on and around campus, you probably have a t-shirt, hat or bag that has been created to commemorate the occasion.
Before you hit the mall to look for the latest barely their bathing suit, take a moment to think….what were women wearing before they had the confidence to strut their stuff in a two piece?
www.lookingglassucd.com   (1190 words)

  
 Looking Glass - October - Entertainment
By the end of their set, most of the band was in the circle pit, skanking with the rest of us.
McFLY was one of the most creative bands at the concert, as they had a mascot dressed up in a silver space suit with an alien mask who tossed free demo CD's into the pit.
My favorite song of theirs was "Polyester" with the lyrics "She don't look like no Barbie doll, but she's mine." It was refreshing to hear a band who didn't focus on superficial things, such as beauty.
www.mountalverniahs.org /Mahs/LookingGlass/02-10ent3.htm   (1003 words)

  
 Book A Band -Looking Glass Featuring Elliot Lurie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Looking Glass' second release, "Subway Serenade", followed with "Jimmy Loves Maryann", #28 in the fall of 1973.
Lurie, the writer and singer of those songs as well as most of Looking Glass' other material, became disillusioned with the band's bubblegum image and decided to strike out solo in 1975.
A Looking Glass show will consist of mostly album cuts, and the two hits from Looking Glass's two albums as well as rock/soul/ R & B and pop hits of various decades.
www.bookaband.com /browsebands/band.cfm?bandID=6141   (491 words)

  
 Looking Glass featuring Elliot Lurie Bio - Mars Talent
After Record Mogul Clive Davis caught Looking Glass at The Whiskey a Go-Go, the group was soon signed to Epic Records.
Elliot Lurie, the writer and singer of those songs as well as most of Looking Glass’ other material, became disillusioned with the band’s bubblegum image and decided to strike out solo in 1975.
A Looking Glass show consists of album cuts, the two major hits from Looking Glass’s albums as well as rock, soul, Rand B and pop hits of various decades.
www.marstalent.com /bio_looking_glass.htm   (463 words)

  
 Looking Glass' Village - Idaho
The Looking Glass Band had settled at their traditional seasonal village, called Kam’-nak-ka, to demonstrate neutrality and avoid becoming involved in the conflict escalating between non-treaty Nez Perce bands and the U.S. Government.
As Peo Peo Tholekt, a young envoy, delivered a message of peace from Chief Looking Glass, an anxious Army volunteer fired a shot into the camp, wounding a Nez Perce man. Other soldiers began firing and the troops stormed down the hillside into the camp, looting the village and burning it to the ground.
A powerful and respected leader, Chief Looking Glass was killed in Montana at Bear Paw, the final battle of the Nez Perce War.
www.fws.gov /pacific/CRM/CRstatepgs/Idaho/looknglass.htm   (310 words)

  
 looking glass: name
the name looking glass means a lot to me. one night, for some reason I was looking through the index of my bible and a couple of words caught my eye; they were the words looking glass.
"though i see through a looking glass darkly, soon i'll be able to see as clear as day." if you're curious as to what version that is, it's the absv or andrew brown standardized version.
the biggest problem is that we would walk around talking about how all the other humans on the planet look awful and not realize that we have a big old booger hanging out of our nose and dirt all over our face.
www.angelfire.com /band/lookingglass/name.html   (287 words)

  
 Through the Looking Glass
“Look, we’ve had this experience, with [hurricane] Katrina, and we thought we were doing it right,” she reportedly said.
Look at what we got out of the Cuban Missile crisis, to take only one example of that failed strategy --- decades of further uncertain nuclear standoff.
The scene included the usual debris of twisted metal, shattered glass and chunks of cement that follows bomb and rocket blasts, along with personal items, including abandoned toys, scorched mattresses and dusty books and photos.
thelookingglass.blogspot.com   (4211 words)

  
 BlueBeat.com - Artist: Looking Glass
Ironically, the group was never entirely happy with either the hit or the nature of the success that it brought them, mostly because it didn't represent what Looking Glass actually sounded like.
In its original late '60s incarnation, Looking Glass was successful playing frat parties and local clubs before splitting up in the early '70s after graduation.
The other members of Looking Glass stayed together for another year, playing out their string as "Lookinglass" without a recording contract and a decreasing audience, until they called it quits in the middle of the decade.
www.bluebeat.com /artists/1191   (562 words)

  
 Through the Looking Glass: A Review of Illuminations, the New Album by Glass and an Interview with the Band Members
Glass was always a band that was driven creatively by the latest technological innovations in instruments and recording.
One of the strengths of Glass as a unit is the ability we have to inspire each other to create something larger than the sum of all the parts.
My original idea once the band accepted the vocal overlay concept was to have several voices going on that would be like the way it would sound if you were at a party and someone put on "Delirium" sans the vocal overlays.
www.aural-innovations.com /issues/issue31/glass03.html   (6507 words)

  
 Looking Glass - alice nine fansite         v3 S T A T I C ...
Looking Glass - alice nine fansite v3 S T A T I C Please stand by...
Hey all, you have reached Looking Glass, a fansite to the Japanese Indies Rock Band alice nine.
Looking Glass does NOT claim to own alice nine or PSCompany materials, images, or related media.
glass.machina.org   (373 words)

  
 purevolume™ | Looking Glass War
Looking Glass War is a brand new band on the DC scene.
Looking Glass War hasn't posted a blog yet.
Looking Glass War hasn't posted any shows yet.
www.purevolume.com /lookingglasswar   (69 words)

  
 Spring Forum 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Looking Glass Theatre’s Writer/Director Forum is part of the company’s mission to reflect life on the stage with truth and theatricality while exploring a female vision/aesthetic.
The festival is held twice a year at The Looking Glass Theatre.
A ragged band of outlaw thespians gleefully perform the famous hunchback’s violent campaign to win the crown of England.
thelookingglasstheatre.homestead.com /ForS06.html   (403 words)

  
 Looking Glass Band   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Looking Glass suffered from a problem common.....Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" Looking Glass..
Looking Glass Excuse us on outage of this box without preceeding notification.
Originally performed by Looking Glass, a rock quartet from New Jersey formed in 1969...
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 Livid Looking Glass
The band continues to evolve with each successive release; 2004's Dante's Kitchen incorporated elements of drum 'n' bass, and Martin has even released an entire album of Attrition tracks arranged for strings.
The duo of Claude Charnier and Christian Pomerlaeu were nice enough to speak to our Livid Looking Glass about their influences and composition as well as a bit more.
After the two broke up - both as a couple and as a band - Jarboe devoted her time to various solo efforts, including a popular collaboration with metal band Neurosis and a number of limited-edition pieces, marketed directly to fans, that blurred the line between music and sculpture.
www.lividlookingglass.com /index_interviews.html   (1073 words)

  
 The Looking Glass - Vol. 10, No. 1 - Alice's Academy
Dursley are made to look ridiculous through their rigid adherence to exaggerated and stereotypical masculinity, and the character-building rituals associated with it.
His glasses are taped together because Dudley has punched him in the nose so many times and, according to Gallardo and Smith, he "inhabits 'feminine' spaces" such as the cupboard under the stairs (197).
In stories in which the hero travels with a band of comrades the bonds between the members of the group are stronger than any friendships with outsiders, especially with women, and are represented as somehow 'higher,' more pure and more intense than any relationships involving sex.
www.the-looking-glass.net /rabbit/v10i1/alice4.html   (8918 words)

  
 Looking Glass Village
Up until July 1, 1877, Looking Glass and his band were camped at the mouth of Clear Creek.
Looking Glass and his band joined other non-treaty Nez Perce and soon headed for Montana's buffalo plains.
There is an interpretive sign on the north side of the Middle Fork of the Clearwater River along U.S. Highway 12 at Milepost 75.9 about 3 miles east of Kooskia, Idaho.
www.fs.fed.us /npnht/tour/lookingglass.shtml   (130 words)

  
 NIN drop out of MTV show over Bush image dispute - Looking Glass News
LOS ANGELES: Rock band Nine Inch Nails has cancelled plans to appear on next week's MTV Movie Awards after the network questioned the band's plans to perform in front of an image of President George W. Bush.
The band was slated to perform The Hand That Feeds, the first single from its latest album.
MTV said in a statement: "While we respect Nine Inch Nails' point of view, we were uncomfortable with their performance being built around a partisan political statement.
www.lookingglassnews.org /viewstory.php?storyid=677   (267 words)

  
 Looking Glass Music and Arts Association
Looking Glass is a loosely knit group of fun seekers who have been organizing monthly square and contra dances, workshops, an October dance festival and other traditional music and arts activities for the past twenty years.
Unless other wise noted, cost is $7 for Looking Glass Members, $8 for the public, and 4.00 for students (high school, college) with ID. Children under 15 are admitted for free!
Looking Glass is a member of the Country Dance and Song Society
my.voyager.net /bonhanno/index.html   (496 words)

  
 Brandy by The Looking Glass Songfacts
The band was signed by Clive Davis, a legendary record executive who has nurtured the careers of many successful artists, including Santana, Billy Joel and Whitney Houston.
This was not typical of the band's sound, which caused a problem at concerts.
looking Glass were from New Brunswick, NJ where this story takes place.
www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=3430   (1257 words)

  
 Livid Looking Glass Magazine Podcast
Show features Gator, Jose and Robert Frank (AKA: Jesus Krist) of the LA goth/psychobilly band Coffin Draggers and features preview tracks off of their upcoming debut album "Dying Breath".
We meet up with the band during their two-show Southern California tour (Release The Bats, Long Beach / Bar Sinister, Los Angeles) and discuss, and play song from, their 2 new albums, "Life" and "Oeuvre".
We play songs off their album "Growing Mold" and discuss their twisted take on music and life while I struggle to keep them from killing each other in a cockfighting to the death while on the air.
lividlookingglass.libsyn.com   (698 words)

  
 CMT.com : Looking Glass : Biography
To the outside observer, Looking Glass was one of the luckiest bands to come up during the early '70s -- and doubly so, coming out of New Jersey in 1972 with a number one
The group was founded by Brooklyn-born guitarist/singer/songwriter Elliot Lurie, bassist Peter Sweval, and pianist Larry Gonsky, all of whom were students at New Jersey's Rutgers University.
Lurie, wearied over the contradictions in the group's success, left Looking Glass in 1974 and embarked on a short-lived solo career that yielded a solo album and a series of unsuccessful singles.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/looking_glass/bio.jhtml   (666 words)

  
 Looking Glass : Oldies.com
Initially as a mid-heavy rock band, they played the east coast bar circuit for many months before refining their act for record company consumption.
Within a few weeks it had topped the US charts, but the band was unprepared for what was to follow.
Bereft of ideas, Looking Glass split and Lurie went on to pursue an...
www.oldies.com /artist-view/Looking-Glass.html   (190 words)

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