Word: earlied
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most expressive backs in all history. His hands became a legend, and he kept them in the spotlight, even when his players were in penumbral gloom. In his mind's ear he heard orchestral sounds never made before-and proceeded to make them. "Music appeals to me for what can be done with it," Leopold Stokowski once remarked. By that he meant that he knew better than Beethoven or Brahms how instruments should sound, and that Johann Sebastian Bach surely would have loved his lush orchestral transcriptions of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor. For such arrogance...
...victim of cerebral palsy. Then there is Suzanne, a bright 16-year-old deaf girl filmed as she experiments with test tubes in a chemistry lab and learns how to rappel on a tree in an outdoor class. Suzanne's speech, which sounds to the untrained ear like a record played at the wrong speed, requires dubbing on the screen. And there's Lisa, a severely retarded eight-year-old with multiple handicaps. For her, just learning to eat with a spoon is a major educational triumph...
...such edgy, close-cropped passages, Lowell denies himself most of the strongest weapons in his arsenal: the lushness of language and images that once re-created New England cemeteries and seacoasts, an ear unmatched among his contemporaries for the off-rhythms that can be made to rattle in the sonorities of a line of blank verse...
...place aptly named the Exploratorium. In Seattle kids can ride on a giant gyroscope to experience the principles of mechanical equilibrium, which kept the Gemini space capsule, conveniently on exhibit near by in a mockup, on target. In Jacksonville, a children's museum features a model of the ear, nose and throat canals large enough to crawl through. The Boston Children's Muse um has an area called Grandmother's Attic, where gold lame dresses and high-button shoes can be tried on. In Indianapolis, which last year became the site of the world's largest...
Ayckbourn can spot the shifting pressures of money and status with a barometric eye. His ear has perfect pitch for the recycled banalities that pass for conversation and the kind of gossip that stirs marital tempests in provincial teapots. Rarely have Ayckbourn's intelligence, nimble comic flair and sympathetic imagination been more acutely on display than in Absent Friends, which gets a rousingly animated U.S. premiere at Washington's Kennedy Center...