Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what a varied bunch they are. Corea's group, Return to Forever, favors high, light, sugary sonorities and palpitating Latin rhythms. The six-man combo Weather Report, with Shorter on sax, plays with the sweep and sonic power of a full symphony orchestra. Cobham manages to mass his colors with a big-band kind of majesty yet retain the kind of rollicking spontaneity that a Stan Kenton, say, never was able to achieve. Larry Coryell, whose new band, The Eleventh House, plays a tight, virtuosic blend of traditional white rock and jazz, never attended the Davis conservatory...
Even in so broad a musical spectrum-part nostalgia, part status quo, part innovation-the jazz rockers are a stylish group apart. That is due as much as anything to the fact that most of them-Pianists Hancock and Chick Corea, Guitarist John McLaughlin, Saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Drummer Billy Cobham-are graduates of the Miles Davis band, where the movement got off the ground back in 1970 with Davis' first all-out fusion of jazz and rock, the double LP album Bitches Brew...
...shuttles to Damascus, she managed to meet nearly every dignitary her husband dealt with during the month, from Hafez Assad to King Hussein to Moshe Dayan. Almost invariably she would stand with her right knee bent, so her willowy 6-ft. figure would not tower over shorter men. In addition, she touched a few bases that Henry missed, managing to meet with a passel of VIPs and not-so-VIPs, ranging from the Baron and Baroness Edmond de Rothschild (at a swank restaurant near Jerusalem) to Dr. Mieczyslaw Rodziewicz, a young Polish archaeologist who was working near Alexandria. She commiserated...
...movies have burdened us with their length--like Andy Warhol's eight hours of the Empire State building--that we are accustomed to associate subtlety with economy. But nothing in The Mother and the Whore is superfluous, and sometimes the long stretch of time allows for effects impossible in shorter films. By the time Alexandre brushes past his ex-lover Gilberte in the supermarket, for example, we have forgotten her completely, and so we experience the same double-take shock of recognition that he does. Eustache's characters have lost the knack of establishing decent relationships with each other...
...Preakness may be another Balaklava charge like the Derby. Though Cannonade is the favorite because of his Derby win, his slow time of 2:04 on a fast track at Churchill Downs was not convincing to rival horsemen. The shorter course and sharper turns may even encourage a few additional trainers to enter their sprinters...