Word: reworked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington must decide soon if it is going to enter into serious arms-control talks with the Russians. The new President must make up his mind whether to frame a State of the Union address of his own. He has to decide exactly how, if at all, he should rework the budget inherited from Lyndon Johnson. The continuing Middle East crisis calls for patient, imaginative attention. Not least, in Dr. Moynihan's special preserve, the White House must decide which urban problems it can most effectively attack, and how the assault can best be mounted...
Essential Gesture. Each cast comes off after about 20 minutes. By slopping on water, Segal can rework the cast days or months later. "Originally, I thought casting would be fast and direct, like photography, but I found that I had to rework every square inch. I add or subtract detail, create a flow or break up an area by working with creases and angles. I'm shaping forms...
...about his brother in Viet Nam ("You know they say you don't have no reason to fight, baby,/ But Lord, Lord, you think you're right"). But social comment is only a faint note in the sound of Chicago blues. For the most part, the bluesmen rework the traditional twelve-bar songs that have three-line verses dealing with common troubles, travels, cars, relief checks, jails, loneliness or joys. Above all, they sing about the vagaries of physical love, since, as Junior Wells puts it, "a woman is the biggest damn trouble you could ever have...
Indeed, Rubinstein is not content merely to rework his repertory. He is constantly developing it. It is not easy, for his "musical valise," as he calls it, is already brimming with the widest repertory of any living pianist. As far back as 1919, he played a series of 27 recitals in Mexico City with only an occasional repetition. Since then his catalogue has expanded in all directions, with the exception of the avantgarde, "whom I leave to the youngsters." He has long been the world's reigning Chopinist, he excels in French impressionistic and modern Spanish music...
...month. "We ourselves like pure jazz best," says one Okayiste, "but our people don't like it. If we only played jazz, we'd soon go broke." Always on the lookout for old African tribal melodies, band members often go into the bush to watch village dances, rework the tunes when they return to town. Often old men appear from villages with melodies they want the Okayistes to hear. "They play it on their primitive instruments-a few strings strung across a box," says one of Franco's men, "and if we like it, we adopt...