Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These advanced machines have already started to change the way Americans work and play. The packaging for dozens of name-brand consumer products, from Ivory Snow to Kleenex tissues, is now designed on 3-D computers rather than from mock-ups made of cardboard or clay. Last year the entire line of Coca- Cola soft drinks was redesigned around a new logo -- a project that would have taken twice as long had it not been done by machine. Timex wristwatches, Ping golf clubs, Reebok sneakers and Volvo station wagons are all created on graphics workstations. Volvo even uses a satellite...
...seemed like a fine time. She was out of school, hanging out in Greenwich Village, and Charlie Parker was teaching her to sing. "Not that Charlie Parker," Phoebe Snow says now, but still, this was a time of awakening. At the urging of Parker, her "first boyfriend," Snow was beginning to experiment with the crystalline grace of her four-octave voice, getting a grip on her crippling shyness, actually starting to perform. She made a debut album, she had a hit, she was on her way. Then her luck faded...
That was the mid-'70s. There was music after that, but none of it was as consistent or as solid; none of it was as soulful. Now Phoebe Snow is back, with her first album in eight years, whose title, Something Real, is a cool bit of understatement. The record is so real -- so immediate -- that the feelings described in its ten songs become almost palpable. The rhythms swing easy and rock on request, but the tunes have lyrics so vivid that each becomes an epigram from a broken heart...
What gives the songs their staying power is their instant emotional familiarity, the way they seem to carry so much of Snow's emotional freight with no strain. The record's last song, Cardiac Arrest, is a kick, a stops-out rocker that dares to be a little goofy, that cuts the listener a little welcome slack. Even here, though, Snow is laughing at the expense of a mangled heart. The women Snow sings about put themselves at perpetual high risk. I'm Your Girl, the record's midpoint and one of its high points, sounds at first like another...
...Office for the Arts at Harvard and Radcliffe presents the newest Quad outdoor sculptural installation, Gargoyles, by Bert Snow, a Somerville sculptor. The visiting artist at Cabot House, Snow has created Gargoyles to perch on top of the Georgian style dormitories. A dormer-window inspired sculpture, Gargoyles will sit more than 40 feet above the Quad and will respond to variances in the wind. A troika of forms made of steel, wood and nylon, the project will be illuminated at night and filled with natural light by day. Gargoyles addresses more vantage points than last year's picnic tables/artwork...