Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever wondered what a unique five-string banjo sounds like, go to Common Grounds (661-1640) tomorrow night at 8:30 pm, because Jeff Aumiller promises to play same. Saturday at 11 am the Talking Bear performs children's music and magic, and Sunday at 3 pm Temple Tones strike "percussive rhythms and mantras with recorders, flutes...
This scrupulous examination of both physique and pose (many of the dancer pieces simply bear the name of the ballet position the subject is striking) pays off in some of the more original statuettes in the exhibit. In one series, "Dancer Fastening the String of Her Tights," Degas enlists his intimate knowledge of the graceful "arabesques" (here again meaning "pattern of lines") to ingeniously turn on its head the wit of his voyeuristic studies of women doing their toilette. While this particular task might conjure up a singularly awkward and unattractive image, Degas transforms it into a pleasing, fluid pose...
Uganda, in short, would be stone broke if it did not receive occasional Arab aid. The currency notes, all of which bear Amin's bejowled and bemedaled portrait, have always been worthless outside the country and now count for nothing inside because people do not want them. Instead, they would rather have scarce butter or a slab of meat or a bottle of waragi, a potent, banana-base liquor. Money is worthless because there is so little to buy with it. The rare visitor from Kenya who brings in Kenya currency, and risks arrest or worse in so doing...
...colored effects, red and white coral, monkeys, turtles, dried mermaids and stuffed Chinamen." Between the immense stolidity of its bourgeois life and the thinness of its cultural milieu, Ostend in the late 19th century must have been one of the most stuffy places in Europe, but Ensor could hardly bear to leave it. In his whole life he made just one trip to Paris, one to Holland, and possibly a four-day excursion to London; that...
...Jack Nicklaus's peers on the pro circuit the analogy might seem an appropriate one but the Bear's game has brought him very little grief over the years. Bobby Jones supplied the definitive and oft-quoted summary of Nicklaus's game when the one golf immortal speaking of the other said: "He plays a kind of golf of which I am not familiar...