Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jazz musicians, of course, are abandoning their convictions for crossover record profits. A number, like Taylor and Coleman, have headed in the opposite direction: into free-form experimental jazz, which seems to flaunt its abrasive sound, hitting you like a kick in the ear. Free jazz dispenses with the chord progressions and set rhythm that traditionally have ordered jazz, leaving each member of a group free to improvise both notes and tempo. It is intense sounding and often looks to the emotional power of African music for its antecedents. Says Taylor: "One of the things I had to divorce myself...
...eyes follow his extended hand to a junkyard-special '67 Chevy that is obviously suffering in the heat. Whatever color it may have been originally, time has faded it to a sort of nondescript grey. You start to move, then remember--it's not yellow, it has no medallion form the Taxi Commission, it's a gypsie cab. A hundred newspaper headlines fire the peculiar sort of panic that only the truly paranoid feel. The visions of being driven to some out-of-the-way alley, held up and perhaps shot by this mysterious driver, flash by in an instant...
...laws. A key provision would have given any worker fired for union recruiting-such firings are already banned by law-time and a half in back pay. At present, such a worker must be given normal retroactive pay. Another provision would require that elections among employees on whether to form unions be held in at least 35 days; current law specifies 45 days...
...determine the letters to be used as substitutes. Thus if the numbers were 7 and 11, the word "GO" might be encoded as "MY" (G + 6 more letters, O + 10 more letters). After each transmission, the key is changed, so that even if one message becomes available in decoded form, it will not help unravel the next coded communication. Nonetheless, onetime pads have shortcomings. Since both sender and receiver require the same key, it must be sent out beforehand, exposing it to interception. The system is also cumbersome. Because military and diplomatic messages nowadays involve hundreds and even thousands...
...Laurence Olivier, actor: "Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult...