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...Nietzsche that "without music life would be a mistake." His father, an organist, choirmaster and piano teacher in Mamaroneck, N.Y., gave him little opportunity to make that mistake. By the age of four, Bender had devised his own musical notation ("lost to posterity, thrown out with the pail and shovel, I'm afraid"), and by age nine had composed several preludes for the piano. In high school, where he batted .349 and pitched knuckleballs for the baseball team, he considered abandoning music for the major leagues when he was offered a tryout by the old Boston Braves...
...exhibition happily recalls, he exhibited a Mona Lisa with mustache and a prized collection of dust. Sometimes he showed found objects under the punning name Rrose Sélavy; in a fit of ennui he invented a new art form, "readymades," prosaic articles given fresh contexts. One, a snow shovel, is labeled In Advance of the Broken Arm and signed by Duchamp. The other, entitled Fountain and signed R. Mutt, received a little more attention in its time (1917); it is an unadorned urinal. These are less creations than gestures, nosethumbing at academia, at mass production and, finally...
Bradley's first priority is to build the rapid transit system that auto-happy, smog-ridden Los Angeles lacks. "I already have my shovel," he says, vowing to begin construction within 18 months. He is willing to start with a piecemeal system. "We could use rail to begin with and then go on to the more sophisticated 21st century types of transportation as they are developed...
...been like that for me since I was 19. I had one great desire, which was just to have one house. I had two conditions: it should be under the American flag, and it should be as livable in winter as summer. I'm too old to shovel snow off my doorstep in Connecticut...
Since most Etruscan tombs are underground, they are found by pushing a steel probe into the earth or sometimes by stamping and listening for reverberations. Then a hole is opened with a pick and shovel and the prizes dragged out. Just two weeks ago, in the area of Cerveteri from which the Met's vase is alleged to have come, the police found one group at work; the robbers fled, leaving their haul of 51 valuable Etruscan objects behind...