Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ornette's surprisingly wide and uneven reputation has been built chiefly on three albums whose titles sug gest the experimental nature of his work: Atlantic's The Shape of Jazz to Come, and Contemporary Records' Tomorrow Is the Question! and Something Else! (jazz lingo for a musician whose work is highly inventive, as compared to one who is merely "taking care of business"). What the Five Spot audiences heard last week was clearly "something else"-music compounded of wildly asymmetrical melodies, lurching and truncated rhythms, tone colors as varied and highly personal as the sound...
Citation: "From the lowest office apprenticeship to the highest ambassadorial portfolio, he has helped shape our external affairs through the tumultuous transition from political isolation to global immersion...
...church collections). Reported one delegate: "We saw people putting 25-ruble notes in the collection plate. In major cities the priests earn between 4,000 and 6,000 rubles a month-equal to the pay of a university lecturer. Some of them drive ZIMs. The churches are in beautiful shape...
...current low production. rate reflects a low point in orders reached in April. On an unadjusted basis, the rate of industry-wide orders has already started to turn up (see chart). U.S. Steel has noted the pickup in orders which, says Roger Blough. "are coming through in good shape." Most steelmen expect a real order pickup in August. By then many industries will have to replenish inventories...
...delights the ear. They have this in common with nonprofessional speakers of Irish English (the barroom Irish of Manhattan's Third Avenue are tedious professionals) and with the talkers of Elizabethan England, if their playwrights bear true witness. In writing about such magnificent lingoists, color threatens to overwhelm shape, as it very nearly did in Naipaul's roguish first novel, The Mystic Masseur. In these sketches about Port of Spain, he lets shape find its own way home. This makes it hard to tell just how good a writer he may be, but the color, at least...