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...best gift of all: they performed his works. The tribute has since become something of a surprise party-for critics and audiences. For while Tippett ranks second only to his friend Benjamin Britten as England's most notable living composer, his music has not been widely played hitherto, chiefly because its polyphonic complexities and juggled rhythmic patterns scare off most performers. Now, thanks to the birthday boom, performances of Tippett's music are finally winning the popular recognition that conservative Britons have long denied...
Both grimacers are converts to the latest twist in isometric exercises, which hitherto-and short of the jowls-have been used increasingly in the past decade as a means of strengthening muscles by making them push, pull and strain. Now a Manhattan nurse named Clara E. Patterson is out with a book showing how the same type of exercise, performed five minutes daily, may replace "the usual 'face-lifting' job" in slimming chins and smoothing wrinkles...
...Council's first inclination was to sacrifice the hitherto eighth-place candidate who was warned at noontime that he might be jettisoned. During the afternoon, however, the HCUA apparently softened its stand and contacted him about 5 p.m. to convey its change of heart...
...Dunster House, HCUA officials circulated a petition opposing her candidacy, which they had hitherto declared non-existent...
...pamper a parrot, and begin to feel strangely detached from events in the surface world. Jewel-bright sea creatures hover outside the glass windows, coolly observing behavior in the manfish bowl. When divers venture into the abysmal blue depths to explore, they come upon sharks, barracuda, and marine life hitherto unheard of-all recorded in skillful underwater photography that magnifies even minute plankton into glittering monstrosities...