Word: feathering
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...Adderly, brother of the late jazz saxaphonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, and Leonard Feather, a music critic and jazz historian, began a week-long stay at North House yesterday. They are the first performers to participate in the "Cannonball" Adderley Artists in Residence program...
Adderley and Feather will lecture on "The Development of Jazz in America" Wednesday evening and conduct a tribute to Cannonball Adderley Thursday evening. Both lecturers, which are open to the public without charge, will be held in Hilles Library auditorium...
...Dinky car, a moth, a scrap of tapestry, a bow tie, some marbles, a pen nib, a pheasant feather, a piece of burnt parchment and a child's fan, all pasted onto a wooden board. Some fetishist's fun? No, it is a Victorian novelty, a riddle picture made by Britain's Princess Margaret, 45, for Roddy Llewellyn, 28, a rich young swell who recently vacationed with Margaret on the Caribbean island of Mustique. Roddy describes the work as "a private message between Margaret and myself." According to the London News of the World, Roddy, who wears...
There was a demonic as well as an Arcadian side to European images of the Americas. In the mid-16th century another Portuguese artist, doubtless inspired by reports of Caribbean cannibalism, painted an Inferno whose Satan wears a feather crown. But in general it was the noble Indian who would predominate. He became decorative in the late 17th century and positively rococo in the 18th, peering from cartouches, dallying under formalized palms. The ideas of Rousseau transmuted him into a red-skinned Cato or Brutus garbed in instinctive rectitude. And as he began to perish along the white frontier...
...right on the mark. "Tarts of the Arts"--by Paul Rosenberg and Ted Trimble--takes its cue from a familiar situation--a jaded senior, unable to find inspiration in his term paper, thinks back to "that night four years ago in Greenough" when three sleazy muses wrapped in feather boas slinked into his room to ask provocatively, "In the mood for some...conceptualization?... Wanna...toy with some ideas...