Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says, "rock 'n' roll's never about giving up. For me?for a lot of kids?it was a totally positive force . . . not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never?never ?about surrender." Like the people in his songs, Springsteen reaches high, always making the big grab but never loosing aim. When a visiting English journalist suggested to him a couple of weeks ago that he was trying to write "the great American novel on albums," Springsteen just grinned and replied, "The great American drive-in movie's more like...
...City, through its photography director, John Szarkowski. MOMA's main summer show is entitled "Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960." It is a sampling of 200 works by 100 American photographers, curated and introduced by Szarkowski in his usual eloquent, aphoristic and pugnacious style. It is, inevitably, a grab bag, but one with coherent strands in it, and likely to hold considerable influence for the future...
...Levitt's high-spirited photographs of children in the over-crowded streets of New York City also point to the cool detachment and relative stillness of Evans' subjects. Her children either dance through the photographs with wild gestures and extreme expressions or stare soulfully out in an effort to grab the viewer's attention. Each individual picture is meant to bowl one over with its content; Levitt follows more in the tradition of social documentarists Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis in her approach. Evans' photographs work on a much more subtle plane. He prepares carefully planned sequences and hopes...
...Reich. Between them was a stylized map of Germany, replete with rivers, hills and other obstacles. Equipped with cardboard counters representing military units, Vincent took the role of Russian Supreme Commander in 1945. Chris was his American equivalent. The object was to bash away at Nazi forces-and then grab as much territory as they could. "It's an intellectual thing," explained Chris, a high school junior from Morristown, N.Y. "I've always had an interest in military history." He supports his interest, immoderately, with more than 100 similar board games; spends an average of 30 hours...
...upcoming events, you might want to grab tickets fast for the Beach Boys and Crosby Stills and Nash concerts...