Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assorted instruments, it was based on a prose poem by Anaï's Nin. None of Nocturnal was taped, but its sounds-chittering strings, night-wailing flutes-were far out enough to fire up any Varèse fan. Its chanted, fragmented lyrics were appropriately opaque: "You belong to the night. . . Bread and the wafer. . . I have lost my brother. . . Perfume and sperm...
...rules of thoroughbred racing, the tiny, long-tailed brown colt did not belong on the same track with the nation's best three-year-olds. His sire, Saggy, was an undistinguished racer whose stud fee was only $400 and whose sole claim to fame was that he had once beaten Citation. His dam, Joppy, never won at all, and sold for $300-$150 in cash, the rest an unpaid $150 board bill. Yet, as he paraded to the post for the 87th Kentucky Derby last week, Carry Back already had earned $492,368, was up on the tote board...
...became a one-man collection agency, spreading the lobbyists' largesse among deserving Democrats for their campaign chests. To cries that such practice is unethical, Unruh simply snorts: "If you can't take what the lobbyists offer and still vote against them, you don't belong here...
Such humdrum realities get little attention from Sukarno, a self-confessed romantic who said last year: "I belong to that group of people who are bound in spiritual longing by the romanticism of revolution. I am inspired by it. I am fascinated by it. I am completely absorbed by it. I am crazed. I am obsessed by the romanticism of revolution...
...technique was loose, almost wild. The brush often surrendered to the palette knife; flat statement gave way to poetic suggestion; line and color broke and quivered with emotion. "Yeats," said Austrian Painter Oskar Kokoschka on hearing of the Waddington exhibition, "was an outsider who did not follow or belong to any school. All his work bears the mark of fantastic imagination and individuality.'' What was Yeats' best period? "As long as he was alive.'' said Kokoschka...