This is a strong postbop collective with plenty of moves at its command: advanced rhythmic calculus, sly harmonic implication, cohesive elasticity, brute force.
In late April and May, the Union armies, under Halleck's personal command, advanced slowly toward Corinth and captured it, while an amphibious force on the Mississippi River destroyed the Confederates Riverr Defense Fleet and captured Memphis, Tennessee.
Older artists generally command smaller advances, Kellogg says, adding that thanks to their existing fan bases, labels don't have to invest as much on marketing.
A top producer can command an advance of up to $150,000 per track, and the Neptunes are in demand everywhere.
On August 26, Clinton received word from Howe that the plan would be used, and that Clinton was to command the advance guard of the main army of 10,000 men on the march through the Jamaica Pass.
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You might get the impression from the essay, and from the book as a whole, that people write fiction either to get a good teaching gig or to be toasted forevermore at New York parties, while commanding big advances.
"Legacy" publishing does best in the first category: it commands the advances needed for research, the editing talent to shape the writing and the marketing muscle to distribute those doorstop biographies on Father's Day.
Since joining Janklow & Nesbit Associates in 1999, Mr. Janklow, 45, has cut a fashionable swath through Manhattan as a clever negotiator and friend of Hollywood, commanding healthy advances for celebrities including Gwyneth Paltrow, Demi Moore and Anderson Cooper and writing about cars and music for Men's Vogue, now defunct.
