Word: spoleto
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...process. His instructions might call for one person to draw an irregular line and for others to attempt to imitate it. Early on, he brought color into the mix to produce agitated chromatic force fields. And in the '80s, after he moved for a few years from Manhattan to Spoleto, Italy, LeWitt began using big, broad phalanxes of colors so bright they play havoc with your retinas...
...operas, The Consul and The Saint of Bleecker Street. But he was best known for the 45-min. Amahl and the Night Visitors, a Christmas opera he wrote for TV. He continued his efforts to democratize the art in 1958 by founding Italy's influential Spoleto Festival (and later its sister festival in Charleston, S.C.), which helped launch the careers of such artists as singer Shirley Verrett and dancers turned choreographers Paul Taylor and Twyla Tharp...
...list of contributors included Truman Capote. Wright once rewrote a story on time zones under the byline of Ian Fleming after the submission of the 007 creator didn’t stack up to Holiday’s standards.Wright left Holiday in 1965 to manage a theater festival in Spoleto, Italy. He then served briefly as editor of Chicago magazine in the early 1970s—though, by his own account, he was quickly pushed out of the job as retaliation for printing an item that mocked Mayor Richard Daley’s poor grammar. Since then, Wright has turned...
...least one terrorist, however, was apparently telling a different story. It was confirmed last week that two of the accused had been moved from the maximum-security facility at Spoleto to prisons near Genoa, where magistrates last week granted U.S. officials permission to question them. Perhaps as a result of their testimony, another terrorist suspect was arrested on the outskirts of Rome. According to unconfirmed Italian press reports, one hijacker told Genoa investigators that Abul Abbas had masterminded their operation. He also reportedly said that Abul Abbas had promised to spring the four terrorists from prison, threatening to stage kidnaping...
...late May and early June, the Choral Fellows will sing at the Spoleto festival in Charleston for their annual tour. Their program then will include these pieces by Rorem...