Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Garden Court-190 rooms, a baby grand piano in each of its 72 suites-began its life just a few years after Hollywood emerged as the world's movie capital. When it opened its doors on New Year's Eve, 1919, the staff unrolled a long crimson carpet down to Hollywood Boulevard, then a dusty lane, where lines of limousines deposited their elegant passengers. As the silent movie era gave way to the talkies, and Hollywood's business and glamour grew proportionately, the residences of its stars became more lavish too. There was the Hollywood Hotel, where...
There's the time one player sat down at the piano in a pub in Wales and the team kept the bar open an hour and a half past closing time, the biggest money night in its 100 year history...
Fluxus was less a defined art movement than a loose anarchist confederacy, given to ritual gestures of protest against "high" culture. Paik, who was to move to New York in 1964, would play a piano and then topple it over onstage; he would cut a pianist's shirttails to shreds with scissors, or stage a little musical "event" by dragging a violin along the sidewalk on a string, like a scraped and protesting pet. A cellist, Charlotte Moorman, would appear for Paik at a concert and play her instrument with tiny TV sets rigged over her breasts...
...Piano lessons are compulsory. Sex education is an accelerated course in child abuse: a newly arrived immigrant cousin spends himself on Kate's leg; an avuncular friend of her family's gropes her at the movies, and a barber's free hand wanders under the sheet. Years later, Mamma tells her daughter that she had 13 abortions. It was not a neighborhood record...
...Young Communist) members, soldiers, jeeps and tanks paraded on Red Square, which was closed to the public. Only those privileged few with invitations were permitted to attend, so we watched the parade on television in the dormitory. In the evening, we gathered at the well-furnished apartment (complete with piano, television and Phillips stereo system) of our conversation teacher. Her large living room windows, overlooking the Moscow River, afforded us a commanding view of the holiday fireworks, which illuminated the city and the entire night sky in alternating bursts of green, gold and red. Her good fortune is perhaps...