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...writ large, it is a definitive summation of his style, strengths and weaknesses. Technically, Fosse tends to favor the pelvic thrust, the rapidly undulating behind, the body shimmy, the quick, alternating shoulder dip, the swiveling head and the massed chorus strut complete with very high kicks. Out of the fusion of these movements, Fosse has won his crown as the choreographer-king of sensuality...
Cobham has played with the original Mahavishnu Orchestra, a post-"Bitches' Brew" group that helped to influence the developing jazz-rock fusion of the early '70s. He has also played with Stanley Clarke on Clarke's "School Days," a very funky album in which Cobham enjoys setting forth basic funky rhythms and varying them, complicating them, creating a funk-avant-garde feel. Essentially, that is what Cobham plays; funk-avant-grade, jazz-rock. His album titles speak for themselves: "Funky Thide of Things," "Shabazz," "Spectrum...
...functions now performed by other agencies throughout the federal bureaucracy. It has a management responsibility, including the huge Bonneville dam project, a weapons research-and-development complex stemming from the old Atomic Energy Commission, and a huge research-and-development program that explores energy sources from wind to thermonuclear fusion. The new department will also create some new sections, notably an Energy Information Administration, which will develop reliable statistics about oil and gas output and reserves, and an Economic Regulatory Administration, which will audit and police the energy companies more closely...
There, literature and painting-the word and the image, deadly enemies in America-had merged. This fusion had been started a century before by Baudelaire, Mallarme and the symbolists. Their belief in direct equivalences between color, sound, sensation and memory struck Motherwell as one of the supreme achievements of culture: the key to modernist experience. It enabled the homely Protestant to hold his feelings tight in a cultural matrix...
...goal of fusion seems worth the work, for, as the world depletes the last of its fossil fuel, the promise of an inexhaustible supply of energy seems cheap at any price. There is enough deuterium in the oceans to supply energy -even if present demand increases a hundredfold-for 10 billion years...