Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It has been called "aural wallpaper," "music for the Birkenstock crowd" and "yuppie elevator music." Its titles evoke a holistic, hot-tubbing world: Etosha -- Private Music in the Land of Dry Water, Aerial Boundaries, Nirvana Road. Although its composers include musicians prominent in the rock avant- garde, it is marked...
Seventy-six trombones and 110 cornets may be all very well, but they aren't a patch on 550 flutists. The instrumentalists, who were attending the 14th Annual Flute Convention in New York City, gathered in the plaza at Lincoln Center one morning last week for a "flute-in"; they...
To the audience of 6,000 gathered last week in the Dallas Convention Center Arena, these final images were irresistible. The crowd had greeted some earlier offerings with hoots and good-natured catcalls. But when the Luxo lamps appeared, bathed in each other's light and seemingly imbued with human...
The site is postcard pretty: a turquoise ocean washes against a black sand beach rimmed by coconut trees. The perfect spot for a resort complex, complete with a 130-room hotel, bungalows, convention center and gambling casino. That planned capitalist paradise is on the Pacific coast of Marxist- led Nicaragua...
Tuesday's balloting was little more than a symbolic test: none of the delegates chosen are officially committed to anyone yet. The 9,000 or so selected from Michigan precincts Tuesday will meet in county conventions in early 1988 to choose delegates to a state convention that will finally name...