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...miter and brocade cope. As they watched, the prelate moved in front of a large table, pronouncing the words of blessing with a Maurice Chevalier accent and making the sign of the Cross over hammers and screwdrivers, a violin, a teacher's notebook, a housewife's wooden spoon, an artist's brushes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Man from the Vatican | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...Wooden Spoons. Salsa is urban music, born on hot summer nights on city rooftops and streets where kids make music drumming on mailboxes and the sides of cars, or hitting an empty beer can with a wooden spoon. The glue that holds it all together is clave, a continuous 3/2 beat tapped out on a pair of hollow sticks. Musicians sprinkle percussive accents around the clave and layer complicated rhythms on top of it: bands like to get six or eight going simultaneously. But it is the continuous clave beat that starts feet moving, hands clapping, and prevents aural chaos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Enter Salsa: Some Like It Hot | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

...designs for Fiat showrooms round the world, agrees with Cardin's principle of atmosphere in design. She says, "Here the architect is concerned with everything that is in his building, from the walls to the furniture to the vase for the flowers. I can design everything from a spoon to a city. More and more we are coming to realize that design is not a means in itself but part of a concept, a system, that relates to other things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Those Designing Europeans | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

...looking forward to next year," said the Tufts Coach, whose season had already ended. "We're looking for the future..." Matthews played with his spoon...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: Harvard's Real Radical Flak | 1/15/1975 | See Source »

When Birdie comes to the town of Sweet Apple he sings "You Got to be Sincere" and town's women shriek, coo and spoon over the rotating hips of the star. As part of the spoof, the director has emphasized the sexual overtones and their excitement is transformed into something very much like masturbation. One woman, sitting in the front row with her seven-year-old child was so shocked, was so shocked she walked...

Author: By Mark J. Penn, | Title: Sexism Put to Music | 11/16/1974 | See Source »

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