Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...People last week shelved a picture of Marilyn Monroe in a two-piece bathing suit, substituted one of the triple wedding of some County Mayo girls. Says a Dublin newsman: "When you see an English paper writing about Lourdes or the Irish saints, you can bet that the space in home editions was filled with i WAS A TEEN-AGE SEX MANIAC...
...more fervent admirers of the pianist whose group is currently the hottest trio in jazz. Its leader is neither red-haired nor green-eyed-but the spell he casts on his faithful followers, including many a fellow jazzman, sometimes suggests the arrival of the first Martian from outer space...
...last week at Indiana's French Lick Jazz Festival, he was at the top of his inventive form. A master of the dramatic effects of silence, he sometimes sits for as much as 16 bars without touching a key ("A pattern," he points out, "can be completed in space"). He rarely repeats himself in a chorus, may go in one brief number-Autumn in New York or The Girl Next Door-through a kaleidoscopic range of moods, most of them merely suggested. by a rhythmic break, a lightly lyric flight in the right hand, a sudden shifting of dynamic...
Manhattan's abstract expressionists have a new forum in the shape of a magazine with a softly assertive title: It Is Editor and Publisher: Philip G. Pavia, a Greenwich Village sculptor blessed with a private income, who loads his $2 magazine with full-page reproductions, offers ample space to the artists to explain, defend and expand on their own efforts. After three issues and yards of prose. It Is seems to have proved that the painters are at least as confused about their work as the public is. Sample quotes...
...dare not venture into the open. For it is becoming increasingly apparent that man is not going to be able to venture beyond the shelter of the earth's protecting atmosphere unless he develops massive, mechanical shells to protect his vulnerable body from the searing hazards of outer space...