Word: alto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mann's flute is a sparrow in the treetops, lightly flitting and chirping above a heavy, sensuous beat laid down by the rhythm section On alto flute, the mood is more softly introspective, evoking languid afternoons by the sea. The music is easy on the ears, mildly diverting in its melodic simplicity and ease of ap proach. Mann plays with eyes closed, standing disjointedly and undulating as if to entwine himself around the microphone, conscious that "some chicks just come to see me move. They're stone-deaf freaks, but I'm not knocking it." He doesn...
...palace continued almost without a break for 48 hours as the military revolt spread across the country. Finally, rather than risk a full-scale civil war, Victor Paz Estenssoro, 57, President of Bolivia, climbed into his bulletproof Cadillac lor a tire-screeching ride to La Paz's El Alto Airport. There, pale and somber, he followed his beautiful wife Maria Teresa, 32, and four children aboard a military C-47 and flew off to exile in Lima, Peru. The camera of the lone photographer who snapped the departure was seized by an air force officer. "Why spoil everything?" said...
Paleontologist Earl Packard, professor emeritus of Oregon State College, who now lives in Palo Alto, was called in to identify the ancient bones. He knew at once that he was looking at something special. "I've waited 40 years for a find like this," he said...
...perfectly fossilized bones are remains of Paleoparadoxia ("Ancient contradiction"), an amphibious mammal bigger than a rhinoceros that wallowed in the shallows 15 to 20 million years ago when California's Coast Ranges had not yet risen and the site of inland Palo Alto was still under the sea. Paleoparadoxia belongs to a long-extinct order, the desmostylians, which lived the lives of saltwater hippopotamuses around the shores of the North Pacific. It was first found in Japan, but the Palo Alto skeleton is the only one found in North America...
...Palo Alto specimen probably died nonviolently, then its body sank to the ocean floor. A few shark teeth were found among the bones, suggesting that sharks may have had a few bites of paradoxia's plentiful flesh before a storm or flood covered the body with sand. Then sediment from the sierras covered it deeply, and a mountain range pushed upward between its grave and the ocean. At last big-brained primates, which had not evolved during its lifetime, brought it into the sunlight while searching for the secrets of infinitesimal matter...