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...connections with the avant-garde movement: Sonny Murray (drums) had worked extensively with Cecil Taylor, don Cherry (trumpet) with Ornette Coleman and Gary Peacock (bass) with Paul Bley. Each listens to the others to produce an intricately balanced counterpoint. On 'Mothers,' Cherry soars off in clear tones against the gruff, grinding bass of Peacock. When Ayler enters with huge, broad sweeps of melody line, Cherry switches to a jabbing attack of quick phrases...
...august four-funnelers as the M.V. Picasso. The chairman, Curator William Rubin, picks up the champagne bottle and takes aim. The grizzled chief engineer, Critic Clement Greenberg, puts down the disc grinder with which he had been stripping an American dreadnought, the U.S.S. David Smith; he wipes away one gruff tear of pride on an oily rag, then jerks the levers...
Died. Michael Flanders, 53, gruff-voiced English musical comedian best known for his long partnership with Schoolmate Donald Swann in their wacky At the Drop of a Hat revues; of an apparent heart attack; while vacationing in North Wales. Crippled by polio during World War II, the bulky, bearded Flanders performed from a wheelchair, while the spindly, cricketlike Swann hunched over his piano diffidently, squeaking multilingual ballads. Their routines were a confection of bluff nonsense ("If God had meant us to fly, he'd never have given us the railway"). Flanders and Swann entertained cabaret and theater audiences...
...Heath. Most of her votes, however, came from the party's right wing, which believed that Heath's Disraeli-inspired "one nation" policy -particularly his publicly expressed willingness to join Labor in a coalition government-constituted a betrayal of traditional Tory principles. Although Heath's gruff confrontation tactics with Britain's powerful miners' union cost the Tories the general elections last February, his more mellow conciliatory tone in the unsuccessful October campaign cost him the support of party hardliners. The right wing also bridled at Heath's use of government intervention to prop...
...some years before, had done a number of "object-portraits"-Stieglitz as a camera and so forth), but the fascinating aspect today is how prophetic this small image is. No doubt Dove meant the folding inch-rule that runs round the portrait like a frame to be a gruff joke-how do you measure the fictional space of a painting? But that joke, 35 years later, would become one of the "issues" of American art and Jasper Johns would obsessively return to it. Of course, Portrait of Ralph Dusenberry is not necessarily a better assemblage because it predicts some part...