Word: beautyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"For her own person," wrote Shakespeare of the great Queen Cleopatra, "it beggar'd all description." Right, says Edward C. Rochette, editor of the Numismatist. It beggared all description because it was so ugly. His evidence: coins struck during Cleopatra's reign and bearing her image. "Cleo was...
The best of the three is "Wharf Rat," which almost unquestionably reflects the musical state of mind that brought forth American-Beauty. A reflection on a chance encounter during a walk through a city's docks. "Wharf Rat" is the Dead at their mellowest.
Thompson eventually designed a tasteful 16-story tower surrounded by 3-story buildings that curve gracefully around old trees, lawns and playgrounds. Plumley thought it essential that the Federal Housing Administration certify the project for rental assistance to low-income tenants. The FHA, however, was nonplused by his insistence on...
By eliminating human life in his watercolors, Mr. Feild assured no contamination of the natural beauty by an ideological or social content. But the artist himself is a vehement social critic, a non-conformist who has often been considered "a rather dangerous sort of communist." The Aleutian bomb, contemporary art...
The New Riders of the Purple Sage look like a cross between the Grateful Dead and a gospel choir. And in a way, they are. They got started around two years ago when the Dead, in their infinite rock-wisdom, began to "get into" country rock. The band introduced a...