Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faced with the choice between amateur therapy and finicky, arid footnotes to Duchamp, the mind recoils. In fact, the term avant-garde has outlived its usefulness. The hard thing to face is not that the emperor has no clothes; it is that beneath the raiment, there is no emperor...
...freeway scenes don't work, and that is mostly director Frank Perry's fault. Didion evoked a city covered in concrete, highways going from nowhere to nowhere. Perhaps filming that inner vision is doomed to fail, since once we see the traffice, it's too familiar to be as arid as Didion's prose images. Still, Perry's attempts to imitate her taunt staccato sentences with abrupt cutting and flashes to yield signs (symbols, anyone?) just doesn't catch the throbbing pulse of Maria's driving--her personal substitute for suicide. When the action moves out to Carter's shooting...
...recorder virtuoso Frans Brueggen tells his Harvard music seminar, the only workable solution to these difficulties is: go Baroque. Abandon your arid twentieth-century musicology as well as your heroic nineteenth-century slush, and look upon this music with the relative simplicity of a Baroque composer-performer. Obviously easier said than done; but Monday evening both Brueggen and eminent harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt succeeded admirably in this life-giving approach to the music of a lost tradition...
...series of events for the months ahead-some small and rather personal and sentimental, others on a bigger scale. In all, we hope to reach-a lot of people .to whom we owe thanks-not only our working colleagues within the company but also the legions of readers arid believers who through the years have helped us grow...
...advice, "Go West, young man," is still being heeded by young and old alike, in spite of the fact that the "frontier" is now posted at intervals with taco and fried-chicken stands. Ecologists point out that the very nature of the West-little water and enormous stretches of arid soil-makes it impossible to support the continued migration. Legislators, scientists and citizens are now openly concerned about the threat of "Californication"-the haphazard, mindless development that has already gobbled up most of Southern California. TIME Correspondent Sandra Burton recently spent two weeks traveling throughout the West, taking the measure...