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...exception was the tune "Don't Rock the Jazz Boat," a staple of Jones's groups through the years. While Latin beats adapted to the jazz context often come across as trite and excessively happy, Jones metamorphosed the bossa nova of this chart into a menacing Amazonian thunderstorm. Distant rumblings on the toms grew louder and louder during Jones's solo, and as the storm came crashing down, lightning forked through the cymbals and snare...
Ruscha's works are emotionally and graphically distant from their demure 19th century predecessors. They are linked by photography's challenge: creating image and form out of light and shadow. Chasing Shadows is well-integrated, leading the viewer easily through broad conceptual themes...
...question is a simple one. Snide liberals might call it simple-minded, but I think it's quite reasonable. Liberals want to teach our children many new and wonderful things. They want to teach them about different and distant cultures. They want to bring sex education into our classrooms. What I would like to know is how we can justify spending limited time and resources on teaching our children multicultural niceties when they don't even understand the basics of American history...
...animals came some 9,000 years later. Rather than being decorated in a single, prolonged burst of creativity, the cavern was painted over scores of centuries, quite possibly by artists who had no connection of any kind with one another, unlike Aborigines, whose culture has direct links to the distant past...
...position is up to him and the Cuban people. But he must -- and will -- leave Cuba."TIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Boothreports that Helms gets many of his ideas about how to handle Cuba from Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), a Cuban emigre who happens to be a distant cousin, and sworn enemy, of Fidel. Castro is, of course, used to such threats from the north. In an interview withTIME Managing Editor James R. Gainesand other editors that took place before Helms made his comment, the Cuban leader noted laconically: "The Cuban people have been able to endure...