Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program director, Oedipus, argued that video "defines a song in a visual context," and Wendy Heide, WMBR, added "it creates a passive audience. Viewers don't have to use their imagination," WZBC's program Jim McKay bluntly accused MTV of "playing music over and over--beating it into your brain." Obviously video is not a loved media among the audio jacks...
...enthusiasms included the paintings of Braque, the writings of Pushkin, the politics of Eisenhower and the comedy of Jack Benny. But there was never any doubt about George Balanchine's greatest love. "I am a dancer," he once said, "body, soul and brain." When he died last week at 79, Balanchine was more than that; he was possibly the greatest choreographer of the century. He brilliantly synthesized ballet's elegant classical heritage with the explosive athletic energy of modern dance and the show-biz turns of jazz and tap. A co-founder of the New York City Ballet, America...
This vision of Harvard-sex-as-mystical-brain-noise has a latter-day proponent in the form of Nicholas Gagarin '70. In a loosely autobiographical novel called Windsong, published during Gagarin's senior year, the narrator spends a considerable amount of time in bed with one Radcliffe woman or another, and each encounter produces a new disquisition on what it all means...
Despite the difficulties, scientists have been trying to devise ways of evaluating animal intelligence. So far, none of them works perfectly. One theory holds that the bigger the brain size in proportion to the body and the more creased the cerebrum portion, the brighter the animal. But, notes Beck, "the human cerebral cortex occupies no greater a proportion in the human brain than in any other primate...
HOSPITALIZED. Ethel Merman, 74, clarion-voiced Broadway performer for 50 years; for surgery to remove a brain tumor; in New York City. Ever the trouper, Merman regained her speech two days after the operation, and within a week was singing and walking around her room...