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Musically this tune features a number of well-executed solos which play off against each other. Also present, as in Dark Side, is atonal background music, the musical equivalent of an astronaut floating aimlessly about in space. Midway through the piece, the soothing vocals enter to offset the rawness caused by the strident solos...
Decline of Taste. A quarter of the paintings in the show and most of the craft objects-porcelain, lacquer, carvings, metalwork-were made after 1853, when Commodore Perry sailed into Edo Bay like some astronaut landing on an unvisited planet. This marked the beginning of Japan's cultural infatuation with things Western and, by no coincidence, of the decline of traditional Japanese taste. The aesthetic slippage of the Meiji period could not be more vividly illustrated than by the objects chosen for this show. To take an English simile, if Queen Elizabeth II authorized an exhibition from the royal...
...decorating since she married Nelson Rockefeller twelve years ago, Happy Rockefeller has given the house a soothing cast of whites and beiges, enlivened with comfortable furnishings in warm earth tones. Among the buffet guests invited to ogle the digs were Movie Idol Cary Grant, TV Hostess Barbara Walters, Astronaut Alan Shepard and Publisher William Randolph Hearst. Happy Rockefeller will not be standing on ceremony with any of them. "I just want everyone to feel they can have a good time," she says, "and put their feet up and relax." She does contemplate one further addition: a swing on the huge...
Even in his Houston hospital bed, Astronaut Donald "Deke" Slayton, 51, was flying high. Shortly after his July 24th return from the Apollo-Soyuz space flight, during which Slayton and fellow Crew Members Thomas Stafford and Vance Brand had inhaled poisonous fumes, doctors spotted a tiny lesion on Deke's left lung. Because of Slayton's age and past history as a chain smoker, a better than 50-50 chance of malignancy was predicted. "He's an extremely lucky man," said Dr. Charles Berry after announcing that Slayton's tumor was benign. Not only will Deke...
Stafford and Slayton crawled into the Soyuz and shook hands and exchanged bear hugs with Leonov and his fellow crewman, Valery Kubasov. Then they traded gifts, including flags and commemorative plaques; Leonov, a gifted amateur painter, gave the astronauts sketches he had done of them. After some small talk the four, plus Astronaut Vance Brand back in Apollo, sat back to listen to greetings from their national leaders. Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, in a message relayed by mission controllers outside Moscow, hailed the meeting in space as marking a "new page in the history of research." President Ford, sitting...