Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...message. Thus ideas become slogans, and issues sound bites. Op-ed turns into photo op. Politics becomes telegenics. And all of us find that we are creatures of the screen. The average American, by age 40, has seen more than a million television commercials; small wonder that the very rhythm and texture of his mind are radically different from his grandfather...
Stroke Fabian Birgfeld opened the race for the Crimson at a comfortable 41 strokes per minute for the first five and 20 and settled down to the race cadence of 35. But the rhythm and ratio were not what the crew needed...
Once there was a single official pop culture: white, middle class, mid-cult, status quo. Pretty much everybody hummed the same tunes, saw the same movies, laughed at the same genteel jokes. That changed in the '50s with rock 'n' roll. The new music took rhythm, danger and sexuality from the underground black culture, cranked the volume up, electrified it and handed it to a brand new consumer group: white teenagers. The young connoisseurs of metal and raunch are similarly adrift from the entertainment that amuses or moves today's adults...
...folk-music offerings. In addition to Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, which for 13 years has featured guests such as Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea and Peter Schickele (P.D.Q. Bach), two new shows are getting funkier and further afield. BluesStage transports listeners to down-and-dirty locales to hear rhythm-and- blues stars, including the Persuasions. A recent episode highlighted veteran Little Milton from the gritty B.K. Lounge in Rochester. The emcee and commentator for the weekly program is Grammy-winning R.-and-B. soul sister Ruth Brown, who also earned a Tony for her role in the Broadway musical Black...
...instance, Stanislas Poray's still life, "Rhythm," represents Buddha sitting beside an Oriental vase. It is one of the first works to introduce Eastern influences into American art. Two of Georgia O'Keefe's "Squash Blossoms" are also on view, but they lack the power of some of her larger, better-known paintings. Still, the last group of paintings is no disappointment. Works such as Charles Sheeler's oil on board "Oranges," a vibrant still-life of the fruit on a table, attest to the growing sophistication yet enduring honesty of the American art of that period...