Word: boing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIEPOLO emphasized the celestial setting by drawing figures sotto or placing them on a physical level above the view??. "Flying Angels," drawn from an underneath perspective, incorporates the confidence of the baroque artist-the bo?dness in line, a shift of the object off center, movement the feeling of depth as the angel recedes into the sky. Many of these drawings with unusual perspectives were sketches for his famed ceilings. In such a series of sketches for the Palazzo Trento (=72-?6). Tiepolo communicates the vitality and spontaneity attributed...
...ISSUES of Harvard-owned housing and the Affiliated Hospitals Center are two sides of the same story for the Roxbury tenants. In neither instance were they represented on important decision-making bo??lies when crucial decisions were made. In neither instance have they exercised any prerogatives in controlling those social forces which affect their own lives...
...this respect, The Molly Maguires is more successful than Bo Widerburg's Adalen 31. Both films go into the lives of workers and use their private dramas as a vehicle for describing the political situation. But Widerburg's sets and shooting are too beautiful to convince the viewer of the miserable conditions of the workers. He makes it easy to get caught up in the aesthestic brilliance of his film at the expense of the drama. Martin Ritt was so anxious to portray the dismal realities of the coal town that he originally shot in black and white, taking obvious...
...sweltering tarmac of Lagos' Ikeja Airport last week, ground crewmen unloaded relief materials from the 13 nations cooperating in the effort to help save 1,000,000 or more I bo tribesmen who are in peril of starvation. Despite occasionally grudging cooperation from the Nigerian government (relief planes, for instance, were charged landing fees of up to $450), the effort was achieving some success. As work progressed, General Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria's military leader, answered questions from TIME Correspondent James Wilde. In his first individual interview since the end of the civil war, Gowon maintains a determinedly optimistic...
...music-crazy, just a total music fanatic. I wanted to see all those places with those fantastic names. Chattanooga, Tenn.?wow! Shreveport, Lu-zee-ana ?wow! I just couldn't wait to drive down that road, you know. All that good music came from there?Robert Johnson, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Junior Parker?and they kept talking about those places in their music...