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...Bach have 22 children? queried one wall "His organ had no stops. "Below a familiar ode to a certain woman from Nantucket was the question. "What's the difference between an orchestra and a bull?" Answer "In the bull, the horns are in the front and the asshole in the back." That one had killed us all summer...
...rose to early fame with his automobile designs, notably the Alfa Romeo Giulia GT and the first post-Bug Volkswagens. His firm, Ital Design, with some 200 employees, has created such diverse products as Necchi electronic sewing machines, a Nikon camera, Nikon sunglasses, the Isuzu Piazza auto, an electric organ, ski bindings, buses, cigarette lighters and a complete set of street furniture for the city of Turin-trash cans, street signs, lights and tram stations. Constantly adding to his list of international clients, Giugiaro expects to have an exploratory meeting soon with General Motors to talk about designing...
...Solomon Guggenheim's mistress, the Baroness Hilla Rebay, who-in her dottily hierophantic devotion to the Great Artist, not to mention her purported Nazi sympathies-was for a time the Winifred Wagner of the New York art world. The Museum of Non-Objective Painting, complete with piped-in organ music, was devoted to the baroness's idea that Kandinsky was the messiah, sent to save all culture, with Paul Klee as his attendant apostle...
...pons is scored for three groups, arranged in a large rectangle. An instrumental ensemble of 24 musicians sits on a raised platform in the center, facing the conductor. Stationed symmetrically around the room are six soloists, also on platforms, playing two pianos, electric organ, harp, cimbalom, vibraphone and xylophone, with each instrument wired for sound. A half-dozen technicians operate a bank of machines on ground level behind the conductor. The most important is the advanced 4X computer developed at IRCAM that can alter and transform live musical sounds with a speed that allows it to function as effectively...
...variety of ailments that have been suddenly turning up in young homosexual men, according to last week's New England Journal of Medicine. Known to doctors as "opportunistic diseases," they strike when the body's natural immunological defenses are down. Previously they were seen mainly in organ-transplant and cancer patients. Among such medical opportunists are pneumocystic pneumonia, a parasitic lung infection that has killed 60% of its victims, and herpes simplex and cytomegalovirus (CMV), two commonplace microorganisms that are generally brushed off by healthy people...