Word: baton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...piece was Henry Brant's Orbits, subtitled "a spatial ritual." After Conductor Gerhard Samuel's final beat of the baton, the composer rose from his seat at the organ to acknowledge a standing ovation...
...runner, was sidelined by an injury suffered last week at the New Englands. Star Tigress Jill Pilgrim was touted to lead a Princeton win in the 880 relay; but the Harvard team of Kim Claremont, Leslie Sims, Rice and Kathy Dorsey scored an upset victory when a poorly-passed baton slowed the Princeton foursome...
Harvard dispatched the penalties in frighteningly quick fashion before attempting to resume the lead it had enjoyed throughout the first period. Linemates Jon Garrity and Steve Andrews incorporated for two give-and-go tallies 1:04 apart to bring Harvard within one before Castraberti grabbed the baton...
...timid or bored. Among younger artists, the abstract impulse tends to be more plainly decorative, less ambitious: witness the elaborately imbricated patterns of Joyce Kozloff s Mad Russian Blanket, or the high-keyed color swatches, like details from Matisse's wallpaper back grounds, of Kim MacConnel's Baton Rouge, 1978. There is also a liking for emblems, sometimes of a puzzling sort−as in the paintings of Lois Lane (not a pseudonym), which sport in profile a curious little animal vaguely resembling a horse, silhouetted on a column against a dark background or dangling from what appears...
...family's lunches are cooked by Mary, the Bui's black maid. But Simone usually prepares a Vietnamese-style dinner. She buys ingredients in bulk (20-30 lbs. of rice noodles at a time) from specialty stores as far away as Virginia and Baton Rouge, La. Their house is a meeting of East and West. Lacquered tables made by Vietnamese artisans and imported from Paris, a Chinese screen bought in Washington, a cowhide rug, a color TV, thick carpeting and soft upholstered sofas. "You show your Penney's card and take what you want home," chuckles...