Word: clays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This fall's schedule looks to be considerably less trying than the one in the spring, so, clay or composition, indoor or outdoor, Radcliffe's racquets should dominate all fall...
Stokowski uses great economy of gesture. A molding movement of the hands-as though shaping an invisible clay vase-brought an exquisite rubato. In the final movement, the Danse Bohémienne, the slashing right arm drove the orchestra on furiously. Rising from his chair, he brought the work to a close with one passionate downsweep. Before the musicians disbanded for their tea break, Stokowski decided to dissolve the tension. "This is really a piece for brigands," he said. "You . . . and you . . . and you, look like real bad men to me. Bet you always go through the customs...
...They do nothing to reinforce a fireman's positive image about himself." To change that, Smith decided to find a publisher and start his own magazine. A friend introduced him to Bull, who had wanted to get out of the Voice ever since New York magazine's Clay Felker took it over...
...Greyhound bus carrying eight of Jimmy Carter's defense-policy advisers lurched down a red clay road last week and rolled to a stop near a small modern house in a pinewoods about four miles outside of Plains, Ga. Most of the passengers, men of wealth or power, were more accustomed to traveling in limousines or private planes. But when they received the Democratic candidate's call, they willingly went along with his studied style of being just an informal man of the people who had summoned members of the Establishment to brief him about world and national...
...over the magazine, a Triumph of Venality. An Apogee of Slickness. In the beginning, you see, or maybe not that early, was Clay Felker, he of New York magazine and The Village Voice. Felker tended to have this O.K. Corral effect on people--they would go in to talk to him and say, "New York isn't big enough for the both of us, so... I'll leave." Some with less amicability than others. And what could be more natural than a former political reporter with New York magazine, a book to his name and money in the family, buying...