Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Little seems to slow Gould down, but the discovery of cancer in July 1982 forced him to curtail his hectic pace. Nevertheless, throughout his year-and-a-half bout with cancer, he has continued to teach courses and work on his pet project, studying and cataloguing the characteristics of the Cerion, a Bahamas land snail...
...much more commercially accessible than Anderson's previous album. Big Science. Her collaboration with Peter Gabriel. "Excellent Birds" will probably and unfortunately become a hit single. And much of the album utilizes the African polyrhythm and synthesizer effects that made Talking Heads' Remain in Light such an influential album. Nevertheless, this album is not a sellout; nor is it a rehash of the African-funk sound which Brian Eno and David Byrne pioneered in the early...
...floor" was the reason for her low marks, though a ballet has been choreographed to Schéhérazade. The competition referee had advised the judges before the final evening that he had examined all the routines in practice sessions and found them acceptable under the rules. Bordogna nevertheless decided to place the Americans fourth on her card, which put a medal out of reach. Bitterly disappointed, Blumberg and Seibert plan to retire. Said Seibert: "I still feel that what we did was important and is the right direction for ice dancing to follow. But if only Torvill...
...studies of landscape and water and plants (lent, like this one, from the Royal Library at Windsor Castle), was more open to the nonspecialist, if only because more people have mused on water currents or leaves than on the maxillary sinus or the epigastric veins of the abdomen. Nevertheless, anything by Leonardo, especially a group of studies as important in his work as this, is bound to be an object of fascination...
...cigarskis were known to be surprisingly fast, but very hard to steer. In their- first public appearance last November, at Winterberg, West Germany, they rolled several times. Before a race at Cortina, the Soviet team withdrew after two crashes. The U.S. and Swiss teams were interested enough, nevertheless, to have copies made. All were rejected for use in these Olympics, as their drivers did not know how to control them...