Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robinson, who directed a recent Harvard Chamber Players performance of Differences, likened Berio to "a troubadour being harassed by machines, yet still loving them." Individual lines are full of wide leaps and bizarre, shifting rhythms, but like Jackson Pollock's dribblings of paint, the lines fuse into a seamless fabric when played together. The sound is not thoroughly blended or homogenized like that of a Romantic string quartet, but there is a dramatic movement which, like the individual drops of water which merge to create a wave, can sweep a listener along...
...more item to Heiress-Artist Gloria Vanderbilt's list of keep-busy projects. After trying her touch at painting, fabric design and collages in recent years, Gloria, 51, now hopes to market some of her artistic know-how in a new magazine. The quarterly, which is modestly called Gloria Vanderbilt Designs for Your Home, promises to supply how-to tips in painting, crochet, needlepoint, embroidery, quilting, knitting, rug making, sewing and other skills for ambitious homemakers. All of which may help even Creative Director Vanderbilt to pick up a new stitch or two. "I haven't a clue...
...young in Paris two years ago as an alternative to the standard jeans and T shirts. "For the past ten years in the West, the fashion emphasis has been on 'the uniform,'' says American Designer Mary McFadden. "We had to have some resurrection of beautiful fabric and fantasy, and when you go to fantasy you must go ethnic...
...Joyce Eliason. Her book, a first novel, is spare and direct, told in a series of quick sense impressions that spin out of each other like the grooves on a record. She seizes the phantom detail that makes a memory jump to life-the texture of a jacket fabric; a room in the Mormon temple; the last words, wrenching and absurd, spoken to her by her dying father: "I'm so hungry...
...equally true now, as then-it was the worst of times, but it also was the best of times. The fabric of America's history is woven through with great challenges that have been met with confidence and faith by its people...