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...sequence of events that led to the emergence of a distinct country style is complicated by a lack of documentation. Pie Plant Pete of the Georgia Skillet Lickers was not overly concerned with his place in the history of country music. Most objective studies have been forced to rely on advertisements, widely scattered interviews that more often than not said nothing substantive about the music, and stories passed on by witnesses...
...target is the traffic congestion that makes face-to-face meetings more and more difficult. "You can't realistically solve the problem by widening streets or banning cars," he says. "You have to adjust, reshuffle things and separate the trucks, cars and people, each on a distinct level. Back in the 16th century, Leonardo da Vinci sketched plans to separate traffic this way. Rockefeller Center tried it in the 1930s." In 1957 Ponte saw his chance to update both. To land a project in downtown Montreal, Zeckendorf had to submit a plan for the surrounding area as well. Included...
Baaron Pittenger, assistant director of Athletics, has the responsibility of "advising" the Band on its halftime formations. Pittenger has emphasized that there are two distinct types of censorship...
...Shaker barns do to architecture-plain, the forms reduced to their simplest and most mysterious denominators, not an ounce of fat left. She works on a level of strenuous responsibility that other American figurative artists never reach, or attain only in brief spurts. This lean resilience is as distinct in O'Keeffe's early landscapes of upstate New York, like Lake George with Crows, as it is in her desert paintings...
...actions, many persons said, had a distinct sexual overtone. He was constantly soliciting different girls, including for a while Susan Saxe and, over the summer, Kathy Power. "I once went to a party last year and Bond was there," one student said. "He had his hands on every girl in the place. He was just obnoxious. A lot of girls complained...