Word: enigma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that never penetrates the buildings, in the last electric-blue silence of dusk. It contracts the near and the far, enchanting one's sense of space. The early De Chiricos are full of such effects. Et quid amabo nisi quodaenigma es/?(What shall I love if not the enigma?)-this question, inscribed by the young artist on his self-portrait in 1911, is their subtext...
First Boston College--the enigma of the ECAC. Every year, the Eagles enter the tournament leaded with talent but can't seem to last past the first round...
...modern jazz musicians and a whole generation of horn players, but Monk himself lapsed into virtual obscurity in the 1950s. Rescued by a series of inspired recordings with such jazz giants as John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, Monk eventually achieved both celebrity and steady work. But he remained an enigma. He wore skullcaps and dark sunglasses, and during performances, when the spirit moved him, he would arise from his piano to dance about, tapping his foot to the beat of the music. "Jazz is my adventure," said Monk. "I'm after new chords, new figurations, new runs." Some...
...subject, if she emerges as less than an enigma she remains just as much of a wonder. The writer of great gifts who does not quite know what he wants his book to be circles a lady of great gifts who has not never quite known what she wanted her life to be. "Entertaining," she once said about herself. It still applies, to the achiever and her admirer. -By Melvin Maddocks
...strange breed of show that provokes laughter, applause, foot-tapping and even a standing ovation and still, beyond a doubt, flops. Purlie, Leverett House and Black CAST's current offering, offers just such an enigma. This rambunctious musical comedy about race relations in the last-1950s South had a respectable Broadway run and has since bubbled cheerfully on numerous regional and school stages. Purlie's infectious and vigorous score, its complement of genuinely funny lines ("College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back") and its unassailable but not over-bearing message...