Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sorry, Beach Boys. Big girls do cry. Just ask Mary Howard, Harvard's emotional field hockey co-captain, who combines artistry with intensity both on and off the field...
Glass's five hour opera "Einstein on the Beach," indicates his solution to that problem. The basic text of the opera is a sequence of numbers and the names of the notes. "That way, the structure and content of the piece are identical," Glass said...
...Einstein on the Beach," staged in several European cities, was performed for only two nights at New York's Metropolitan Opera House. "It's different here" Glass said. "You have to deal with several individuals to obtain the necessary financial support. In Europe you deal with the government," he added...
Comes a Time is a choice Young album; also, like all his records, it is inconsistent. A relaxed and cozy mood prevails, similar to the previous Harvest but pitched lower than the disconcerting brilliance of On the Beach and Tonight's the Night. Whether at his peak or just marking time, Young is an incessant worker; he has about 200 songs recorded but unreleased. The tunes all share a rough, unfinished quality that is often disarming, sometimes just rushed. Young works best at the full pitch of his feelings, does not seem to wait around for second thoughts. Comes...
Unfortunately, these 63 polished works tend to turn self-mockery up to full volume: "Present it in a pitiful light. Three combat-scarred veterans, who fought their way from Omaha Beach to- what was the name of the town we fought our way to?" Or: "What sort of poetry do you write?" "Lyric, elegiac, and athletic In praise of youth, death, and anarchy. Very good for tearing...