Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...common meeting ground, and the centuries of difference will yield a powerful new music form. For now, we can listen to Edgar Winter at the Apollo and B. B. King at the Fillmore, and the Temptations, well, we can catch them at the Copacabana. And we must be content with these exploratory forays that are being made by both races...
...arrived. Praised as a colorist, Zakanych-a solidly built, Midwestern-looking 36-year-old who actually hails from New Jersey-denies the classification: "People are always trying to tell me I'm a color painter. In fact my work is just about painting." Nevertheless, color is the overriding content and subject of Zakanych's work. He manipulates it with stunning precision, by dividing the canvas with a grid of close rectangular intervals and then producing tiny, almost imperceptible grades of hue and intensity from one block to the next. The result is "a constant movement across the painting...
...wear the red arm bands that designate them as Red Guards. Proud of his operation, Wang keeps hurrying his guests on to see more. First comes a chemistry class. Mao looks down from the wall again. The students sit like robots listening to the teacher talk about analyzing the content of calcium. They recite like soldiers, turning to their books and back again on command, as if executing close-order drill. Nobody slouches, no eyes stray from the teacher to the guests; there is no unnecessary noise. It is like a machine, but the harshness of the moment is softened...
Until the precise content of the talks were known, the effects of the Peking summit on the rest of the world could be assessed only tentatively. In the capitals of Southeast Asia, the unexpected warmth of Peking's welcome to Nixon stirred an undefined apprehension-the feeling, in the words of one Manila newspaper, that "when the big fish swim together, many little fish get swallowed up." Officially, the leaders of Western Europe had little to say about the trip, but they were obviously concerned about how their dealings with Soviet-bloc countries might be affected...
...heart attack; in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Though overshadowed for a time by her famous brother Vaslav Nijinsky, she built her own durable reputation as a choreographer, dance mistress and inspiration of two generations of ballet performers. While ballet in the early part of the century stressed costume and dramatic content, La Nijinska helped re-establish the importance of pure dance through her creations Les Biches and Les Noces...