Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record executives tell the story with a straight face. It's last April, and one of their veeps comes in with demo tapes of an unknown girl singer, name of Roslyn Kind. Yawns all around. But then the voice comes on, strong and hard-edged, like all the Barbra Streisands in the world rolled up in one. Cynics straighten up in their chairs; jaded old ears listen for the flawed cadence, the flattened phrase that never comes. Another listen, then unanimity: Sign her up. Only then does the guy who brought the tapes spring his surprise...
...other "first-generation" Abstract Expressionists. Thus it came as something of a discovery to learn that Helen can really paint. "For myself," wrote the New York Times's Hilton Kramer, "this exhibition establishes Miss Frankenthaler as one of our best painters." Barbara Rose, in an article for the April Art forum, will argue that Helen Frankenthaler is "one of the major figures in world art in the last two decades...
Frankenthaler and Greenberg split up in 1955, and for a couple of years after that she turned out confused and not very satisfactory pictures. Then in 1957 she met Robert Motherwell, and they were married the following April...
Whether the present mix of fiscal and monetary policies will bring the "gradual" economic slowdown that the Administration wants should be known in a few months. Most taxpayers will be painfully reminded in mid-April that not all of last year's 10% income tax surcharge was covered by their withholding taxes. The federal budget will soon shift to a slight surplus after three years of inflationary deficits. At this point, top Administration officials figure that present measures will begin to bring inflation under control-perhaps without another dose of higher interest rates...
...take another, and possibly decisive, step in the long, long journey toward a U.S. supersonic transport program. A governmental study group has split evenly between partisans of the plane and opponents. This gives the decisive vote to the chairman, Secretary of Transportation John Volpe, who is due by April 1 to forward a recommendation to the President for final decision. Says Volpe: "I don't see how the U.S. can afford not to go ahead with this ship. I don't want to see our country play second fiddle...