Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mile to nose out Harvard's John Murphy and confirm coach Bill McCurdy's lament that "the close ones weren't going our way." On the brighter side of the race, Murphy, just coming off a bout with tendonitis, notched a personal best at 4:04 flat...
...next three sides highlight individual performances. Gayle Moran's rendition of "Come Rain or Come Shine" falls flat--she should know enough to stay away from such a gutsy jazz singer's standard. Serenade features Joe Farrell's tenor sax, an undersung quantity if there ever was one. Stanley Clarke performs a lengthy acoustic bass solo that is more a technical coup than a creative improvisation. His sheer enthusiasm makes the cut listenable despite serious intonation problems. Corea begins the show's finale with a 17 minute piano solo. His playing is so damned interesting that he very nearly carries...
...whiskey. One picture at the museum, of a beautiful woman in a black bikini, lying on her back, horizontal, on bare sand, the straps released from her shoulders, and her face and thighs cropped by the frame, would not have looked out of place in Vogue. A bright flat tint of glamor clings to too many of Meyerowitz's pictures, a glamor that, in the commissioned St. Louis work, can verge on meretriciousness...
...missing youths in Wisconsin, and the CBS-TV Chicago outlet ran a special report called "The House on Summerdale St." in which they stuck a microphone in the face of the Iowa judge who had presided when Gacy was convicted for sodomy several years ago. The judge was lying flat on his back in the hospital but the T.V. reporters were undeterred. They created a model of the Gacy home and pointed to where the bodies were buried. They brought a model skull into the newsroom and pointed to how the young victims could be identified...
...Argentine-born architect Cesar Pelli, now dean of the college of art and architecture at Yale. His Pacific Design Center of 1976 has been assimilated into the local folklore of Los Angeles quicker than any building in recent memory, because it is so violently at odds with its flat suburban context. Known as the Blue Whale, it is an immense exhibition hall, the Crystal Palace of the West Coast, providing more than 750,000 sq. ft. of space. The surface is not mirror, but semitranslucent blue glass, which glitters and disappears and re-forms against the dusty blue...