Word: roped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taken on a glum, apocalyptic tone: "The art currently filling the museums and galleries is of such low quality generally that no real critical intelligence could possibly feel challenged to analyze it...There is an inescapable sense among artists and critics that we are at the end of our rope, culturally speaking...
Stolen Goods, Gems Lifted from the Masters; The Outrageous Dr. Teleny's Incredible Plugged-in Orchestra (Zack Laurence conducting; RCA quadradisc, $5.98). The cover of this album shows a James Bond type suspended by rope above an alarm-rigged floor making a heist of some bejeweled busts of the great composers. The first track is called The People, Yes, and turns out to be Chopin's Revolutionary Etude done up in the sex and violence of an 007 film's sound track. Ludwig's Gig is a lush snippet from Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony; Superjoy...
Occasionally Goodman's skewered mates get their own back. Whipping around to strike his No. 4 kettledrum once, he flailed empty air. A colleague had tied a rope to the big copper bowl and, while Goodman was looking elsewhere, hauled it away...
...begins his evening ritual, first stripping to his long underwear, then donning a regimental uniform jacket and a white ballet skirt, and finally stringing himself up for a harmless little swing. The earl, however, mucks up on this particular occasion, and Tucker discovers him dangling from the proper silk rope, neck twisted like a child...
Sibley's demands were as unusual as his methods. Besides $2,000,000 in $20 and $50 bills and $8,000 worth of gold bars-the highest ransom ever demanded in the U.S.-he insisted upon items ranging from three Thompson submachine guns and 300 feet of nylon rope to ammonia inhalers, smelling salts, pep pills and sleeping pills. Once the passengers were off the plane, it flew to Vancouver, B.C. Told that that much U.S. currency was not on hand in Vancouver, Sibley ordered the plane to Seattle. En route, he handed the crew a four-page statement...