Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cast comes off after about 20 minutes. By slopping on water, Segal can rework the cast days or months later. "Originally, I thought casting would be fast and direct, like photography, but I found that I had to rework every square inch. I add or subtract detail, create a flow or break up an area by working with creases and angles. I'm shaping forms...
TURNING away from the fitful franc for a moment, the International Monetary Fund last week reported some sanguine statistics about world trade. For the first time, nations are selling goods and services to each other at a rate of more than $200 billion a year. The flow reached $209 billion in this year's third quarter, an increase of 8% in the past twelve months. Altogether, the industrial nations increased their exports by 116% in the past decade...
CHRISTMAS is part of the flow. It's the catalyst that picks us up and dumps us into the next state of existence, winter. It's the ceremonial rite of staying-indoorsness...
...times the pianist sounds like Oscar Peterson or early Dave Brubeck, as he lays down a firm base of intricate rhythms and unpredictable chord progressions. The right hand produces a steady, lilting melodic line that can flow from originals to classic themes-as in Chopin Prelude/ How Insensitive, which leads from an E minor prelude into a bossa nova favorite with a similar mood and melody. Pretty good for a 15-year-old. As Critic Leonard Feather puts it, by the time Craig Hundley is old enough to shave, he might well be the best-known pianist in jazz...
...live and draw a flow of gold. From a dead father's reservoir of rich es. I retreat further and further back. Behind my own lonely elegance. Where no one will ever again get to know me. And speak less and less." These are the thoughts of Balthazar B, whose picaresque life story seems to prove F. Scott Fitzgerald's statement that "the very rich are different from you and me." Actually, rich or poor, J. P. Don-leavy's characters always appear to lead lives destroyed in some way by money...