Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great Europeans in concert regularly, because the war had forced them to mi grate to the United States. Then, we had recordings. In other words, the pianistic world was at our fingertips." Even today, Graffman often refers to recordings by other pianists in developing his own musical outlook. "When I first work on a piece, I deliberately avoid hearing other performances. Then, when it is respectably well along, I listen to all recordings, because every great artist will have something...
Comics & Bubble Gum. The Whitney's curators found few artists portraying local flavor in the tradition of Grant Wood. What they discovered instead was regional groups with a common outlook, like the West Coast's "funk artists," whose gamy, gutsy assemblages have been shown in many national exhibits. Equally vigorous are half a dozen youthful Chicagoans who call themselves "the Hairy Who." As can be seen from Karl Wirsum's The Odd Awning Awed, the style of the Who is based on garish colors and art-nouveau line, draws its imagery from comic strips, bubble-gum wrappers...
...outlook is further complicated by the report's numerous dissenting opinions on individual recommendations. The bulk of the recommendations were passed by simple majorities, and only two or three received unanimous support...
Welcome to MGM. Because of Hollywood's international outlook, Britain's Joseph Janni, producer of Darling, now looks there rather than to England. "If I go to J. Arthur Rank with a film idea, they consider me a nuisance," he claims. "If I go to MGM, I am welcomed." France's Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Woman) has been signed to a multipicture contract at United Artists, as has Polanski at Paramount. The Iron Curtain countries are a continuing source of new talent, and Hollywood studios have dangled fat contracts before Czechoslovakia's Jan Radar...
...Harold Wilson and his ministers were bent on a course that they had tried desperately to avoid ever since he took over as Prime Minister three years ago. Two weeks before, Chancellor Callaghan had gone to Wilson and reported that the Treasury's quarterly forecast showed that the outlook for 1968's balance of payments looked even worse than had been expected, and in fact suggested that there would be no improvement at all over the current year. In July, Callaghan had said publicly: "Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in wage standards of every...