Word: stickwork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ginger Baker, 28, is a dazzling drummer, perhaps the only one in the rock field who can sustain long, inventive solos. His crackling stickwork and splintered rhythms give Cream a complex yet driving beat that few rock groups can equal. An antic cockney, he drums on other things besides drums: on tours, he leaves behind a trail of hotel bills for damage to furniture and other property...
...dispute between Negroes ended in damage to 14 shops, a few of which were white-owned; it also brought injuries to 14 of both races. Police in Erie, Pa., broke up a sidewalk crap game among Negro youths-and the result was two days of stonings and stickwork. Officials in Cincinnati, Tampa and Buffalo, where ghetto dwellers rampaged earlier this summer, nervously sought ways to avert fresh flare-ups. Racial disturbances also occurred in Plainfield, N.J., Laurel, Md., Kansas City, Mo., and Miami...
...composer, lets the music speak for itself. His attack is clean, crisp and controlled, and he adheres to the dictum of his close friend Richard Strauss: the basic duty of the opera conductor is to buoy up rather than drown out the singers. Böhm's stickwork, as spare and exacting as needlepoint, is also an inheritance from Strauss, who, to contain his enthusiasm, often conducted with his left hand in his pocket. Years ago, during a Dresden performance of Die Frau, Strauss forgot himself and signaled a climax by thrusting both fists...
...Crimson was stirred by the manpower. Gunnoe returned to the game, and with some agile stickwork drew two defenders to him. He flipped to Palmer near the crease, and the fleet sophomore tied the score with a hard shot to the corner of the goal...
...predictable rash of Crimson goals in the fourth period and the stickwork of sophomore Dick Ames gave the varsity all the punch it needed in its 10-3 romp over the Boston Lacrosse Club Saturday. Ames collected three goals and as many assists against the aging Boston Clubbies...