They formed a Western-style political lobbying group.

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He did anything but make a spectacle of it: Exquisite tailoring, brilliant composition and searing hues formed a fitting tribute to her style.

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The lucky half who escaped that fate are a group apart, although they have not formed a self-conscious, American-style black middle class.

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Slim cut his first single, Scufflin, in 1966 and became a Chicago blues fixture in his own right, developing a guitar style that blended a distinct vibrato with a slide-guitar-like sound formed with his bare fingers against the strings.

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In 1983 a transatlantic support group, the Tradescant Gardeners of America, was formed, and in the same year a delightful garden was opened behind the Lambeth church, in 17th-century style and containing only plants known to the Tradescants.

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