Word: afield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...various attempts have been made to revive him, but none have really taken hold. The most recent, which may restore Canova to some popularity, is the sleeper of Venice's summer art season: a show of 152 drawings, clay models, plasters and finished marble carvings, borrowed from as far afield as St. Petersburg, handsomely installed in the period rooms of the Museo Correr on Piazza San Marco. It is 20 years since such a group of Canovas has been assembled in public...
...surprise that many clinics must go far afield to find a doctor who is willing and able to perform abortions. The Allentown Women's Center in Pennsylvania can offer them in large part because one day each week Dr. Amy Cousins makes the 120-mile drive from New York City. On two other days she treks 200 miles north to provide the same service in Binghamton, N.Y., where the antiabortion group Operation Rescue has its headquarters. "I can't get anybody to cover for me," she says. "So I don't go on vacation...
...mode fashion statements, it's their extravagantly eclectic repertoire: from George Crumb's nightmarish Black Angels to the artless tangos of Astor Piazzolla and Jimi Hendrix's protopsychedelic Purple Haze, their trademark encore. The group's latest Elektra Nonesuch CD, PIECES OF AFRICA, finds the Kronos wandering even farther afield. A potent new brew of folk influences, Minimalism and European forms by eight black, brown and white African composers, the music ranges from the irrepressible Mai Nozipo (Mother Nozipo) of Zimbabwean Dumisani Maraire to the brooding White Man Sleeps of South African-born Kevin Volans, and resounds with the sound...
...music so much as at the constraints governing performance. His music has enough rock echo to catch the ear of anyone fleeing rap or dance synth on the radio, but it's not aggressive or demanding. It certainly isn't haunting -- you'll have to search far afield from Brooks before you glimpse the ghost of Hank Williams -- but it is insinuating. Even when it's tackling a fairly serious subject like domestic violence, as in The Thunder Rolls, it sounds . . . well, nice. Maybe not entirely appropriate, but it sure goes down smooth...
...novel contract with Mexico's Telmex phone company calls for 1,000 electronic mailboxes in each of three cities: Tijuana, Mexicali and Ensenada. Potentially, Trilogue could service scores of other Mexican urban areas that have the prerequisite pay-phone networks. Farther afield, Comverse is eyeing markets in developing countries from South America to the Far East. The company has links with major distributors like Samsung in Korea and Oki in Japan, as well as Alcatel, the French telecommunications giant, which rang up the Mexican deal...