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PLAIN OLD BLUES (Emarcy). Art Hodes at the piano and Truck Parham on bass swing their way through a lexicon of the blues reminiscent of Chicago in the '30s (Washboard Bines, How Long, How Long Blues, The Chimes Blues, Snowy Morning Blues). All very backward-looking, comfortable and exceptionally cheery...
European housing often looks elegant from the outside, but much of it is backward in kitchen equipment, bathroom layout, floor plans, heating, plumbing and lighting-the innards that make the shell truly livable...
According to David A. Gilbert, president of the Daily Herald, the spoolers had attempted an "April Fool's edition December" which subsequently backward...
...became the wealthiest on earth. The rea son: beneath the waterless desert lies one quarter of the world's oil. Though that fortune was all his own by dynastic right, Sheik Abdullah squandered none of it on sybaritic pleasures, used his billions in royalties to drag the once backward country from the 10th into the 20th century. Without collecting a dinar of taxes from Kuwaitis, he wiped out unemployment in a land of underfed illiterates, created an elaborate school system and the world's most lavish welfare state, rebuilt the mud brick capital city of Kuwait into...
...European painters found themselves losing the Renaissance reverence for Greco-Roman antiquity. Following the Italian artist Caravaggio, they stopped looking backward and returned, as artists have done repeatedly throughout history, to the direct observation of the visible world. What they saw was a growing middle-class life in an ever more secular society, and they depicted it with theatrical relish...