Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Delightful Puff. Playing variations on a theme comes naturally to a jazz musician. Rivers has carried much of this facility over into his painting. As jazz will use parts of a familiar tune to take off for bluer skies, Rivers is content to borrow bits of the old masters or leave parts of his painting unfinished and out of focus. Sometimes he will simply jot down on the canvas notations to color an area ocher or blue and then not bother coloring it. By this, he is leaving hints at the process of art as a form of living improvisation...
...dark continent, suggestive like an ominous travel poster, but nonetheless full of color and intrigue. In Dutch Masters and Cigars II, he is producing high comedy rather than striving for high seriousness. Art to him can be puns, quipping conceits between cigars and Rembrandt. Only a delightful puff here and there separates it from thin...
TRINI LOPEZ: THE FOLK ALBUM (Reprise). On the theory that a song can hit twice if it can hit once, Trini's first all-folk album consists mostly of other people's winners, such as Puff (the Magic Dragon), Crooked Little Man and We'll Sing in the Sunshine. He does not always listen to the words-Blowin' in the Wind sounds as exuberant as if those are greenbacks blowin', but why not? Trini has become accustomed to their flutter ever since he jammed the jukeboxes with If I had a Hammer two years...
...seventh International Chopin Piano Competition began with a cloud of controversy and ended with a puff of perfume. As the field of 83 contestants was whittled down, one U.S. entrant who was eliminated lodged a sourgrapes complaint that the judges (14 from Communist nations, seven from Western countries) were "unfair" in advancing all twelve Russian and Polish performers. Yet when the final round opened last week, for the first time in the 38-year history of the competition (held every five years, except for an interruption during the war) there was not a single Russian in contention. If anything...
...Though it is familiar as "the heaves" or "broken wind" in horses. Emphysema comes from a Greek word meaning to puff up or inflate...