Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future, but in many ways he was one of the last individualists. Even in the '20s, he represented a kind of nostalgia. In an era of Teapot Dome and bathtub gin, he seemed to Americans a cleaner, sharper version of themselves, as bright as a new silver dollar, still inventive and vigorous. If, as Historian Frederick Jackson Turner said, the U.S. ran out of frontier in 1890, Lindbergh opened a new frontier in the air - the U.S. arcing back in triumph to its European origins...
...toughest, most durable jazz masters. Originally a follower of Charlie ("Bird") Parker, Woods has survived the ups and downs of decades of jazz with a personal style that has never lost its passion or ingenuity. In this extended set, recorded during performance last November at the Showboat Lounge, Silver Spring. Md., he fronts a six-man combo working the mainstream of jazz today. Standard tunes are blended enticingly with originals by Pianist Mike Melillo, Guitarist Harry Leahey and Woods himself, and there is even a breathtaking moto perpetuo treatment of I'm Late from the Disney Alice in Wonderland...
...personal narrative on economic thought and modern politics. Admittedly, Galbraith has the boldness and ability to step out of chronological sequence and tie together ideas and people in ways that make the process a little more understandable. But take the cover (glossy and liberally sprinkled with gold and silver) and the price ($15.95; to rise to $17.95 after the television series opens in the U.S. this week) seriously: this book belongs on the living room table, not on the shelf of a serious student of economics or of Galbraith's thought...
...program includes: 50 mile forced nature walks; The weekly oral treasure hunt--gold fillings, silver bridgework; Arts and Crafts: lampshades are our speciality; Tatoos: every kid wants one; Scientific experiment kits, so they can perform the experiments they learn from...
...Director Silver (Hester Street) is a bit studied and schematic in her juxtaposition of scenes, but she is attuned to the hip, offhand humor of the Mainline's newsroom. In one sequence, a bearded interloper hurls a typewriter to the floor in a self-styled act of conceptual art, only to have a group of staffers top him by smashing up the office and punching a hole in the wall...