Word: rashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Northern Ireland's all-pervading violence has seldom spilled over to London, such isolated outrages as the bombing last spring of the Old Bailey court building have made Londoners aware of the potential for serious trouble. Last week that potential was realized. First a rash of 17 mini-bombs sowed confusion across the swank West End. Only six exploded, none doing serious damage. One that was detected and defused turned up at No. 10 Downing Street inside a book on Composer Gustav Mahler mailed anonymously to Prime Minister Edward Heath, a Mahler devotee...
Unfortunately, the Washington breakdown was far from an isolated occurrence. In addition to the traditional hardships of the concert circuit - captious critics, eccentric plane schedules, hotel-room mix-ups - pianists have lately been coping with a rash of recalcitrant and faulty instruments. "Twice in two weeks I've had the keys come right off the piano," says Byron Janis. "In Flagstaff, Arizona, I was in the middle of Rachmaninoff's G-Minor Piano Concerto when all of a sudden a tiny jagged piece of wood jabbed my finger where the B-flat had been a second before...
...science will be seen for the first time in seven years this summer. Like many other frescoes, Fra Angelico's Crucifixion, in the chapter house of the cloisters of San Marco (see color page), was suffering from a chronic problem that predated the flood: a pockmarked rash, resulting from crystallization within the plaster...
...last few years seems to have levelled off in the second half of this year to about $1200 to $1500 per week. Hall says that this is at least partially due to increased awareness and security precautions on the part of students, administrators and police, especially since the January rash of armed robberies...
...last few years seems to have levelled off in the second half of this year to about $1200 to $1500 per week. Hall says that this is at least partially due to increased awareness and security precautions on the part of students, administrators and police, especially since the January rash of armed robberies...