Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...local performers. Fontana, a sprawling red-shirted mass, bellowed out a beautiful, conventional rendition of "Polka Dots and Moonbeams," and then offered a fine interpretation of Bill Howard's "Carl," with an ingenious improvisational tag. The classicist gave way to the more experimental Wilson, who flirted with his own creation "Mother England." Wilson "kibbitzed" with his instrument, contorting the sound until an exasperated Fontana blurted out from the wings, "You can't do that with the trombone...
...CREATION of the genre he calls "Celtic rock" Alan Stivell had a very good idea. Its realization on stage left something to be desired; nevertheless, the effect was startling...
...single creation win both a copyright and a design patent? A copyright protects a work for as much as 56 years; a design patent lasts for 14 years but protects the creation even when another innocently comes up with the same idea. Generally, copyrights are for the protection of authors, while patents are for inventors. Still, said the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, there can be an overlap; and in such cases, the author-inventor may ask for both forms of protection. The new winner in this fledgling category is Richard Q. Yardley, who created the Spiro Agnew...
Frank Getlein, in the exhibit's excellent catalogue, contrasts Avery with Matisse: both are removed from Cubism and Surrealism, the dominating forces of early 20th century art, but, unlike Matisse, Avery neglects in his subject matter the process of artistic creation. "His art effaced itself before the importance of the subject." comments Getlein, "And the subject was not just the subject but the subject as containing and manifesting a kind of divine energy...
...conference did produce one statesmanlike proposal: French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert called for creation of a U.N.-supervised agency that would build up reserve stocks of petroleum and grains. The agency would probably sell those stocks to hard-up nations if supplies got tight or market prices prohibitively high. Jobert's plan could help answer U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim's call for an "overall and global" formula to give raw-materials-producing nations a fair price for their products without bankrupting their customers. But careful evaluation of serious plans is not likely to occur in the highly...