Word: bowings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ultimate Gumball. Chewing gum is no novelty, either. Only Alan Silverstone, 35, has made it so. He sees himself as a real-life Willie Wonka. He even dresses the part of the fictional candymaker, donning velvet tuxedo, ruffled shirt, red velvet bow tie, top hat and cane. It seems a bizarre role for a onetime Wall Street investment banker with degrees in law, business administration and economics. But Uncle Al, the Kiddies' Pal, as he thinks of himself, is not just living out a childhood fantasy. The owner of Oakland's U.S. Chewing Gum Manufacturing Co. since...
Some artists have long, honorable careers but are continually ignored. They are swamped by their colleagues' bow waves. Giorgio Cavallon's career has been of this submerged kind. He is now 73, having been born near Vicenza in northern Italy in 1904, and he was one of the first abstract painters in New York in the 1930s, when painting abstract seemed automatically to consign an artist to ridicule and obscurity. In the '60s some of Cavallon's contemporaries, such as Milton Resnick or Lee Krasner, long written down as minor or fringe figures in the aesthetic...
...immediate danger of an unanswered Soviet arms buildup is that it could prompt other countries to bow to Moscow's demands in some future diplomatic crisis. Explains London's Burt: "If the U.S. decided not to keep pace with the Soviets in strategic competition, it could signal a lack of resolve to America's allies." Another danger is that the Soviets may try to take advantage of either a real or merely a perceived superiority and expand their sphere of influence. Says General David C. Jones, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff: "In many parts of the world, the Soviets...
...shaken orchestration up in recent years with an ingenious knack for producing new sounds with old instruments and homely domestic objects. The grimly surrealistic Black Angels (1970), for example, was written for amplified string quartet and requires the players to trill with thimble-capped fingers and even to bow on crystal glasses tuned with water. Ancient Voices has certain mournful sounds produced by the bowing of a musical...
Died. Ricardo Cortez, 77, suave silent-screen star who appeared in more than 350 movies; in Manhattan. Born Jack Krantz, he changed his name when Hollywood producers slated him to follow Rudolph Valentino in romantic parts with such actresses as Greta Garbo, Clara Bow and Dolores Del Rio. As a boy, he was a runner on Wall Street, and in later life became a stockbroker...