Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...texture, color and feel. The rising glissando in the second verse of "Velvet Sportcoat" abruptly alters the mood set by the song's first verse, and underscores the words: Haze like juice spilled slowly formless/Scent of citrus in my ears." In one of Johnson's compositions, "Instrumental," Lieberman makes bird like sounds that are almost primal as they echo above Joynson's gentle electric chord-picking...
...political aviary of Israel includes hawks and superhawks, doves and superdoves.* It also contains at least one vulture. That is what "peres" literally means in Hebrew, and Defense Minister Shimon Peres, 53, judging by last week's events, is most likely to be Israel's big bird after next month's general election. The adroit, self-confident Peres (see box) easily won the Labor Party's nomination for Premier at a special caucus of the central committee. Yitzhak Rabin, forced to step down after disclosures that his wife had illegally maintained bank accounts...
...ACCOMPANIMENT OF the sounds of a tropical forest in a bird-infested jungle and flashing projection of lighting, John Cage, when he was at Harvard last semester, presented a multi-media symphonic reading of Thoreau's Walden, with a dozen readers speaking simultaneously in irregular polyphony. With its torrential waves of sentences upon sentences, and splashing words and spilling syllables, the Cage extravaganza explored the possibilities of the human voice when reduced to a cascading unintelligibility. Cage showed the cathartic effect of flooding all the senses, and I remember myself screaming in unison at the top of my lungs toward...
Blustery winds and a brief snow flurry in New York City failed to slow the brisk sale of petunias, azaleas, tulips and hydrangeas; apartment dwellers were determined to bring touches of nature into their steel-and-concrete towers. Bird lovers crowded the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge as they sought to spot the first glossy ibis, dowitchers and lesser yellowlegs of the season. Members of the Appalachian Mountain Club went hunting for fiddlehead ferns...
What Lady Bird Johnson did for flowers and trees, Joan Mondale may do for art. To that end, she has crowded the turreted, Victorian Admiral's House that serves as the Vice President's official residence in Washington with 52 works by U.S. artists-sculptures, paintings and handicrafts. Joan, a longtime art buff, helped Martin Friedman, director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, choose the loan collection from museums in the Middle West. "We tend to forget," she said, "that there is an active and deeply committed world of art out there between the East and West...