Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though, New York City's Hispanics are anything but passive. Salsa Bandleader Eddie Palmieri, 41, has become a latino superstar who packs halls across the U.S. No fewer than 169 recognized bands regularly tour New York City's circuit of Latin clubs and dance halls. Cityarts, an artists' collective now funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, mobilizes painters to create ghetto murals. Last March El Museo del Barrio, a Puerto Rican cultural museum begun in 1969, opened new quarters on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Its first show, "Resurgiemento," included Artist Domingo Garcia...
...Chinese firecrackers were vast chrysanthemum bursts. The Italians were all noise," says he by way of review. Why is he so hot on fireworks? Says Plimpton, who is now working on a book about the world of contemporary tennis as seen through the eyes of oldtimers: "As an artist and a writer, the idea of putting a torch to something is completely satisfactory...
Saul Steinberg, artist and cartoonist: "The doodle is the brooding of the hand...
...harrowing moments, but the hero seems to have come through handsomely. After a serious heart attack five years ago, he underwent a rigorous cure for alcoholism. He speaks candidly of the downward spiral his life had taken and of the connection between writing and drinking. "If you are an artist," he says, "self-destruction is quite expected of you. Orphic myths popped up early, showing singers being torn apart by Harpies to the infinite satisfaction of society. The thrill of staring into the abyss is exciting until it becomes, as it did in my case, contemptible...
ENGAGED. James Earl Ray, 50, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., serving a 99-year jail term near Knoxville, Tenn.; and Anna Sandhu, 32, courtroom artist. Explained Sandhu, who met Ray last year during a hearing on his prison escape: "I'm marrying him because I love him and because I know he's not a murderer...