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Alvin

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Alvin, city (1990 pop. 19,220), Brazoria co., S Tex.; inc. 1893. The city is chiefly residential but is near an agricultural area where rice, cotton, soybeans, and pecans are raised. Industries include oil and natural gas; rice milling; and the manufacture of concrete, fabricated metal products, and electronic equipment.


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Now she is one of a group of scientists who board submersibles like Alvin to study Earth's seafloor.
It was this vision that inspired the next generation of black choreographers, particularly Talley Beatty, a student and a member of her company, and the younger Alvin Ailey, who, as Jennifer Dunning has written, was bewitched by her when as a teenager he first saw one of her shows in his native Los Angeles.
``(Animation) would come back from overseas and there'd be no head on Alvin and you go, `Geez, that's a problem,''' Bagdasarian recalled.
 
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