Word: freeform
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grateful Dead took the field midway through the second day. After much exacting tuning and preparation they began--and played without stopping for 45 long, and sometimes short, minutes. The music was essentially freeform or no-form jamming. If you put any bunch of talented musicians on stage and have them improvise for an hour it is inevitable that they will get it together a few times. For all that, it is clear that progressive rock is not instantly exalting the way supreme unvarnished rock 'n' roll (Beatles, Stones, Hendrix, Who, etc.) is. Rather the Grateful Dead came into their...
Republican Hour. Inside Convention Hall stands a 19-ft.-high, 500-lb. sculpture that epitomizes the party's high hopes for 1968. From its stainless steel stems hang 24 freeform wooden leaves. Twenty-three of them bear cameo-style carvings of past Presidents, including every Republican elected since Lincoln broke the ice in 1860. The 24th is blank, but the conventioneers, their euphoria heightened by the sun, surf and sand of Miami Beach, are confident that it will some day bear the likeness of whomever the G.O.P. happens to nominate this week...
...means that more and more encounters between priest and penitent are taking place outside of church. At numerous Catholic colleges, chaplains will hear confessions in their own rooms, or even while walking on campus. Many priests no longer insist that penitents recite a detailed account of their sins, prefer freeform discussions about their wrongdoing. Occasionally, devout Catholic husbands and wives will approach a priest together for a joint examination of their spiritual failings, prior to individual, private confessions...
...melodic tangents that were by turns coy and playful, ten der and savage. Then, taking up his flute, he turned philosopher, evoked the soft and misty moods of a man looking back on sunnier days. Love Vibrations. Lloyd is the newest prophet of New Wave jazz - the freeform explorations made familiar by such saxmen as John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. His rapport with his sidemen, especially inventive Pianist Keith Jarrett, verges on the extrasensory. The quartet's appeal is that, for all its flights of fancy, its fractured rhythms and criss-crossing harmonies, its music makes sense. Free...
...plot. Gleason has the loud uncertain blare of a tinhorn who can't face the music. Julie Harris, as a U.S. Employment Service counselor, suggests with diffident charm that the U.S.E.S. of adversity can sometimes be sweet. And Quinn, though his dese and his dose and his freeform nose get tiresome after awhile, nevertheless gives a heartfelt interpretation of a decent human being taken up by an inhuman racket as casually as if he were a cigarette: when the racket has used him up it drops him; and because there still seems to be a spark of life left...