Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CHET BAKER: MY FAVOURITE SONGS (Enja). The haunting picture on the cover says it all: a face ravaged by drugs but eyes still full of dreams and yearning. This was the trumpeter's last concert, taped just two weeks before he fell to his death from an Amsterdam hotel window at age 58. But forget the quirky timing: Baker's full-throated horn never sounded better, and his poignant vocal on My Funny Valentine is an unforgettable paean to lost youth...
...must offer us something a little more spectacular than half a dozen white chicks sitting around talking. Accordingly, Harling's adaptation hustles them out of the beauty shop and into the life of the town. Suddenly the people they talked about so amusingly behind their backs must be met face- to-face. The conflicts and confusions that sounded so hilarious in the recounting are spread out realistically. And reality, as we know, is never that amusing when confronted head...
...stairs. "We'd say we were going to have a nap," recalled O'Keeffe. "Then we'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me." Stieglitz shot some 300 of those pictures, and they constitute a statement far beyond the pleasure principle. From every angle, the long melancholy face radiates an unconventional beauty; the nude torso takes on the authority and bulk of sculpture. Before the onlooker, the model is gradually transformed into a work...
Some bishops were troubled by the prospect of substitute services. William McManus, a retired Indiana bishop, warned that the strong tradition of Sunday Mass could be undermined "if we bless this monster." Bishop Raymond Lucker of New Ulm, Minn., urged a study of the priest shortage that would face such issues as "Why can't we ordain people other than celibate males?" For the Vatican, however, that is a question not open to discussion...
While Chrysler's predicament has some surface similarities to the recessionary days of 1981-82, the current U.S. auto market is an utterly different place. American carmakers have made huge strides in improving production, quality and design. But they face a competitive threat that would have been unimaginable back then. The Japanese transplants account for 14.7% of all passenger cars sold in America, up from 8.9% two years ago. Detroit, which has seen its U.S. market share plunge from 84% in 1978 to 68% this year, is likely to lose another 8 percentage points by 1994, according to a study...