Word: fusions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bernice's Abbott presents a fusion of maturing technology and changing times. "New York at Night" (1933) is a sharp bird's-eye view of illuminated midtown Manhattan from the newly constructed observatory of the Empire State Building. The artist's scrawled signature on the print brings startling authenticity to the photograph, which has become a staple poster image...
...more than a hot pot, it's a Hot Shot....We think it's powered by nuclear fusion," says one proud user...
...called Tom, as in Thomas Lanier Williams, the playwright's full name. He will be both narrator and player, providing "truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion." The message: we will be witnesses to Williams' personal history as well as to dramatic fiction. The fusion results, of course, in a richly poetic play about three people who are trapped by circumstance and one another. Amanda Wingfield, an erstwhile Southern belle, clings to the past. Her daughter Laura is a physical and emotional cripple who can bear to do nothing more challenging than tend her collection of miniature glass animals. Laura...
...bands, like US 3, have followed in Planets' wake. Meanwhile, some of the most respected musicians in jazz -- from Harvard summa cum laude saxophonist Joshua Redman to veteran trumpeter Lester Bowie -- have recorded songs combining jazz with hip-hop. Both Miles Davis and Quincy Jones experimented with rap-jazz fusion in the '80s, but a decade later it is becoming a staple. How broad is its acceptance? Well, Digable Planets is featured on a compilation called Hip-Hop 'n' Jazz that's being sold with a food tie-in at McDonald...
Walter Becker (once of Steely Dan) gives fusion a good name...