Word: finest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attorney's did when that great rocking electric buzz flew near, louder, but never quite loud enough? Well, I have just the right Black and Blue buzz for you--it flew in the other day and squashed my roommates flat. The Rolling Stones' latest album. Hot Stuff is the finest example around of blues-finger disco--turn it up and watch the room shudder the way the highway does when its 100 in the shade. Hot Rocks had nothing on this--only burnt your feet like those Pacific s-m islanders' who walk on red hot terraces. Memory Motel replaces...
...Dalton's cover article in today's What is to be Done? is one of the finest pieces I've read in some time. Though, as a native Los Angelino, I do not often kindly react to the disdain with which the "Eastern Press" regards anything coming from Southern California, I must heartily agree with Mr. Dalton's assessment of the current state of Bob Dylan and his music (pardon the run-on). Hard Rain (both the album and the TV special) was a bitter disappointment musically and aesthetically. Dylan, in the attempt to change his image from Bob Dylan...
While you may be anxious to begin skiing and want to rush out and outfit yourself with Norway's finest, the temptation to buy immediately should be fought...
STAINED GLASS. Photographs by Sonia Halliday and Laura Lushington. 207 pages. Crown. $39.95. The authors traveled throughout Europe selecting and photographing the world's finest examples of sacred and profane stained glass. The result is a comprehensive guide, from the llth century Old Testament windows in Augsburg Cathedral to the 20th century revival of the craft as seen in modern churches as well as the temples of commerce and art. The text and layout by Lawrence Lee, George Seddon and Francis Stephens provide a rich historical context; a final illustrated chapter explains the methods of stained-glass artisans...
...June he was awarded a life peerage that entitled him to be called, although no one did, Lord Britten. It was an honor that acknowledged Benjamin Britten's rank as Britain's finest living composer and one of its best throughout a long history. In 1945 he produced the one contemporary opera, Peter Grimes, that has found a firm place in international repertory. Of the 14 other operas that he wrote, Billy Budd may soon earn a similar popularity, and if it does not, the underappreciated A Midsummer Night's Dream should. His plentiful songs and chamber...