Word: fancier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...czars more than those of the commissars. Discipline is extremely rigid, and the gap between officers and men is far greater than in the U.S. or British navy. The officers' quarters are far more spacious, their food far tastier, their dining rooms more elegant, their uniforms much fancier. The disparity in pay between officers and men is right out of the times that drove Karl Marx to write Das Kapital; a first-term seaman earns $5 a month, a lieutenant earns 100 times more, and a rear admiral 400 times that much. There is an additional discrimination that probably...
More disappointing were the two guest soloists, perhaps because of the attention drawn to them by separate billing and fancier stage protocol. In BWV 105 soprano Carole Bogard began confidently but was evidently unsure of most of the aria beyond the opening phrases. As the movement progressed she became increasingly dependent on the score in her hand, and while her opening phrases had been nicely shaped the rest was little more than competent reading. Still, she obviously had a good ear, enviable accuracy of pitch and a fair amount of vocal agility. Alto Eunice Alberts sang with the inertia typical...
...traditional boast of new war-planes-as of new automobiles-is that they are even faster, fancier and lovelier than their predecessors. No such claim can be made for the Navy's newest jet bomber, the A-7A Corsair II. Its touted virtues, in fact, include slowness, cheapness and unfashionably simple gadgetry...
Deluded by Camp Followers. Faced with what often seems outrageous demands for superscale ("The less the content, the more the discussion," snapped one critic), for imagery that can verge from the erotic to the apotheosis of the ordinary, the art fancier understandably asks: "What is art?" Replies Samuel Adams Green, who supervised the installation of New York's outdoor sculpture show: "Everything is art if it is chosen by the artist to be art." But even Green was taken aback when Sculptor Claes Oldenburg, known for his spoofing soft-plastic sculptures, last week ordered a hole dug in Central...
...bian warriors battling invading Turks, and even American Indians tomahawking white pioneer women on the old frontier. With the rise of world sugarcane production and the replacement of wax candles by incandescent bulbs, beekeeping has been on the decline for some time in Yugoslavia. But for the folk-art fancier, there is still plenty of honey in the old hives: genuine antique beehive paintings now bring up to $1,600 apiece. And at least one enterprising Slovenian, Vid Sedej, 28, is doing a brisk business selling his contemporary versions of beehive paintings at $3 apiece...