Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...harp at capacity volume, punctuating his solos with sharp staccato blasts shaking him from head to toes. Tschudin, scorning more pedestrian methods, gets high on his organ and builds climatic crescendos of musical phrases. As for Hillman, the other four call him the Ghost Rider, because "he can draw fast enough to shoot a knife that's being thrown at him." He has a wonderful habit of bending the final electronic note of his beautiful guitar solos--a habit which invaliably draws a series of awe-struck screams from his delighted fans, the audiences happy to discover a 3-performance...
...most dynamic, versatile and talented new sculptor in the U.S. art world, the darling of critics, the envy of every museum curator. Two years ago, Tony Smith*was an unknown, but today serenity is the last thing to be found in his life. He is currently riding a fast-cresting wave of enthusiasm-not merely for his sculpture but for all the huge, wild, pure (and impure) shapes of contemporary art. He is also the primary personification of a growing race of creators who have discarded modeling clay in favor of blueprints, the chisel in favor of the welding torch...
Stabiles in Harlem. But as he is the first to admit, it is the public's infatuation with the fast-unfolding art scene, magnified by massive dissemination through almost instantaneous communication and reproduction, that has prepared the way for acceptance of art as a natural and stimulating part of both private and public life...
...Gillette's ex-President Stuart Hensley, who had been a contented company man for more than two decades until this year, when Boyden 1) sold Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co. on Hensley's presidential potential, and 2) sold Hensley on Warner-Lambert with the argument that the fast-growing merchandiser (ethical drugs, Listerine, Rolaids, etc.) offered "a more challenging situation" than Gillette...
...year illness (Huntington's chorea, a rare disease of the nervous system); in Manhattan. "This train is bound for glory," sang Woody, and so was his musical cast-Dust bowl farmers seeking Pastures of Plenty, the spunky Union Maid who defied "goons and ginks and company finks," fast-living Jackhammer John, everyone traveling a hard road, but one that provided hope, blooming with all the gladness of his folk anthem, This Land Is Your Land. The gaunt Depression minstrel, with dried-grass hair and a reedy voice, spun off the Oklahoma plains like a cloud of the "dusty...