Word: firebird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insular firebird (meaning the sun) gives up the day, and is tucked into a corner. Order, like a giant janitor, shuttles about naming and replacing the various humanities. I look at you, you look at me -- We wave again (the same), our hands like swollen flags falling, words Marooned in the brain...
...costs some $170 million a year. American Motors did away with it in one 1965-66 model - only to get a flock of gripes. But the industry has not yet given up the fight on the fifth wheel. Later this month, Pontiac showrooms will have the sporty new Firebird, which has the same body shell as its G.M. cousin, the Chevrolet Camaro, but is four inches longer. The standard Fire bird is more powerful than the Camaro (165 h.p. as compared with 140 h.p., though both offer optional 325-h.p. engines), will cost "a little more" than Camaro...
...century painting. Yet roots of Kandinsky's modernism lie more in the soul than in any scientific mood. For him, folk art with its romance and spiritual energy was a vital source, just as it was for his contemporary Stravinsky, who made brightly violent music, such as The Firebird, out of traditional Russian folk tales, and the sculptor Brancusi, who derived his mythical Maiastra bird from a Rumanian fairy tale...
...price gap between Mustang and Thunderbird. Chevrolet this fall introduced its Camaro, a frank copy of Mustang, to go along with the Corvair Monza which had been its interim lower-priced specialty car. In February, Pontiac, which already has the Tempest GTO model, will bring out its brand-new Firebird-also being built in a crash program-as the twelfth entry in the specialty field...
...Stravinsky, Man of His Age," a portrait of the composer at 83, including his trip last spring to Warsaw, city of his youth, for the performance of Rite of Spring by the Warsaw Opera Ballet and the Firebird Suite by the Warsaw Philharmonic, with the composer conducting...