Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moore, widely regarded as the foremost British sculptor of the century, created the work at his foundry in Nowack, Germany, in the early 1970s as part of an edition of seven identical sculptures. The sculpture, which is six feet high, is cast in brass with a gold patina...
...Fontbrune analyzed the use and frequency of words with the help of a computer in his translation from 16th century French. Nostradamus' predictions, originally titled Centuries, are contained in 1,050 verses, mostly quatrains. He is said to have conceived his vague but troubling visions while staring into a brass bowl filled with water; he is otherwise best known as Charles IX's doctor. Published in November 1980, De Fontbrune's book at first drew little attention. Then, last May, readers began to interpret the attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II in Rome as a fulfillment...
...whole improbable enterprise was started in the depths of the Depression by a 28-year-old Nebraska pharmacist named Ted Hustead. He had a $3,000 stake, a wife, a child of four, and the brass of a born capitalist. Now 78, with wire-rimmed trifocals, thin white hair and a deeply lined face, Ted looks like a kindly drugstore man out of Norman Rockwell. In earlier pictures, he looked more serious and resolute. "We weren't trying to make it rich," he recalls. "We were trying to make a living...
...series have not yet been chosen. The producers are still searching for such treasures as the kinescope of a 1955 version of The Petrified Forest, which teamed Humphrey Bogart, who had played the original Duke Mantee, with a new Gabrielle-Lauren Bacall. Gold must have looked like brass in those days, so casually were now priceless kinescopes discarded...
This emerging group of three women and two men are 30 or under. Each had the opportunity to work with young composers. Over the campus came the cries of tortured pianos and punished brass. Exotic instruments punctuated classes in Afro-American, jazz and a variety of modern dance disciplines. The Erick Hawkins technique had students working on the floor of an old gymnasium to the music of Chinese gongs, while others moaned in the transports of "deep muscle therapy." Even professional critics engaged in feisty controversies at the A.D.F. commissary, the Barre. And when attention turned to the six evenings...