Word: ben
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...music lessons. Ben Margolis, 11, of West Los Angeles, has a Roland D-20 that he can mess around with when he's finished his piano lessons. "Nothing can replace the real instrument," he says, "but if you're trying to do sound effects or you don't know how to play another instrument, it's great." But Margolis already has it all in perspective. "The piano is the more beautiful instrument," he says. "But the keyboard is the more interesting...
...stupid," Al Joyner said. "[He] came back to America and there weren't any great things happening for Carl Lewis. Then these accusations came up. When Ben Johnson got caught in that situation, Lewis didn't have anything...
Warhol began and ended as a commercial illustrator; what lies between is the interesting stuff. He was an adroit draftsman but not a distinguished one. He soon overcame the influences of his early advertising days (Jean Cocteau and Ben Shahn), but the drawing is never more than efficient. Partly for this reason his freehand "studies" of soup cans or dollar bills never acquire the pressure of the silk-screened ones, but it is hard to see how they could: those coarsely nuanced rows of ready-mades, in taking Duchamp a small step further, remain the most eloquent comments...
...variety of sports have also been damaged by recent drug scandals involving professional and amateur athletes, culminating in sprinter Ben Johnson's disqualification from the Seoul Olympics because of possible drug...
Voyager has always been scrupulous about releasing wide-screen films in "letter-box" format (masking the top and bottom of the screen to duplicate the breadth of the theatrical image), and this idea too is catching on. MGM is marketing lavish wide-screen editions of Doctor Zhivago and Ben- Hur, and 20th Century Fox will put out the Star Wars trilogy, as well as the recent smash Die Hard, in the full-frame format. Even E.T. was letter- boxed on disc, and Spielberg's earlier 1941, when it arrives on disc this summer, will be in wide screen and contain...