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...major difference in the groups is the type of the type of music they sing. While the Pitchesand Kroks tend to do swing, blues, '20s, '30s, and'50s, according to members, Johnson said theOpportunes do "Motown, jazzy, upbeat music...
...avant-garde before 1914: fervent, ejaculatory, based on the human figure and full of pretensions toward expressive plangency and "primitive" directness. There has been a like revival of the kind of acrid satire and political chronicling that occupied the German Dadaists and Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) painters in the '20s. The image stream of German expressionism went underground, but not even Nazism could dry it up. It is the deep, continuous current of German modernism; it picks up different names, en route through the century; and here it is again, manifested in the work of painters like Georg Baselitz, Anselm...
...secure, she is already planning ahead to a time when she will teach again, though at the conservatory level. "Anything can happen, you know," she says. "A manager once said to me that it's not so important how one's career takes off when you're in your 20s. The important thing is to stay in it through your 30s. If you reach 40 and look around to see yourself still singing, then you're having a career. I like to think I'm still peaking." Look around, Kathy...
That work consisted of more than 400 short stories, film scripts of his novel Fahrenheit 451 for Francois Truffaut and of Moby Dick for John Huston, TV adaptations of Bradbury tales, plus poems, articles and plays. By his early 20s, the son of an impoverished electrical lineman had begun to write his way out of the Depression. The familiar Bradbury style was set early: an amalgam of myth, sentiment and evocations of Poe and H.G. Wells. At 26 he was already being asked where he got all his ideas. With that kind of reader interest, he felt secure enough...
...miscarriage. The lady who lived here, she had two miscarriages. Kidney cancer over there, and the home here, the wife died in childbirth. This next family, the dog had a seizure disorder, and their little girl had terrible stomach and bladder problems." Leistner has four children, all in their 20s. "One of my daughters has a seizure disorder; she tried to commit suicide in 1983. Another daughter, she's hyperthyroid; we almost lost her to cancer of the cervix at 21. My former husband has a liver impairment...