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...with ideas, including plans to replace the orchestra's annual June festival with a more adventurous celebration of American music. He is also renotating and recording some of Aaron Copland's thorny early works, as well as continuing work on a major orchestral composition of his own. With his new-found maturity, not to mention a five-year contract, the wunderkind has grown up at last...
...bands in the 1940s. During much of the '50s, his life followed an all-too-familiar pattern-the broke and brooding jazz musician who turns to booze and drugs. Yet in 1957 he kicked drugs cold turkey at his mother's house, subsisting only on water and a new-found religious zeal...
...New-found evidence of the worst drought in the past 7,000 years may help explain the unexplained collapse of the Mayan civilization. Samples of ancient mud from the bottom of a lake in the area where the Mayans lived show signs of the severe drought right around the time the Mayans mysteriously abandoned their cities. Anthropologists believe the new evidence fits the generally accepted theory that a number of factors -- drought, overpopulation, inter-city warfare and environmental collapse -- brought on the society's demise...
Hair-dyeing is more than an experiment in new-found freedom, though. Many people think it adds color (punintended) to their daily lives. Just imagine how many more wardrobe combinations a head of yellow hair allows: Now the green sweater and the orange pants will not clash because the vivid yellow distributes the outfit across the color spectrum more evenly. Sure...
...expanding information and concomitant chaos, mastered paradox through meditation.Bruce Nauman creates art that is a drama of a particularly physical sort of imagining." Well, yes: remember Black Balls, 1969, eight minutes of Nauman's fingers rubbing black pigment in close-up on his scrotum? "O my America! my new-found land...