Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radio is at once the only constant and the only release from monotony, Rule said. But even that is beyond his control. His mood is at the mercy of the disc jockeys' whims. A country folk singer for one circuit. Hard rock for another. People get on. People get off. The night rolls irreversibly, monotonously...
Sidewalk Sam paints the town, or at least the sidewalks, when the weather permits and the mood takes him. People passing a guy who kneels in the street and chalks reproductions of Gainsborough on the pavement may wonder what he's doing down there, but to Sam it's all very clear. "I'm bringing art to the people instead of making them go to dusty old museums to see it," he says. "I'm taking painting out of the hands of the elitist art bureaucracy and putting it back where it belongs...
...work, usually on several things simultaneously. Once, when he took his two daughters on a vacation in Greece, he spent most of the time in his hotel room reading. He likes to prepare a new script while actually shooting another, even if the two are totally different in mood. "A film maker needs to contradict himself," he maintains. "Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me, for instance, was a reaction to the sadness of Two English Girls...
...ngers. The Isle of Jazz in Music Land (1946) is a brassy plebeian version of an almost archetypal image that in fine art reveals itself in Arnold Böcklin's Isle of the Dead and Watteau's Embarkation for Cythera: an island as kingdom of mood...
...mood of the Louisville delegates was considerably cooler than that of the General Convention in Seattle six years ago, when the Episcopalians ebulliently adopted a controversial special program to aid racial minorities and approved a constitutional change to allow women to be seated in the House of Deputies. The 1970 convention in Houston went on to approve the ordination of women as deacons, a critical step toward eventual ordination of female priests. But such changes did not sit well with many of the church's 3,400,000 members. Indeed, criticism of Presiding Bishop John E. Hines, an outspoken...