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...INDIVIDUALISM OF GIL EVANS (Verve). Evans, revered arranger for Claude Thornhill and Miles Davis, gathered a platoon of excellent musicians to stir musical colors with him (in The Barbara Song, El Toreador). The orchestration is sensuously full of woodwinds and French horns, and the arrangements so complex that they invite close listening...
...insight and sensitivity of its content should do much to stir up the consciences of medical men as well as of people of all religions to face their obligations at the time of others' death. Few people in their secret hearts want to die alone...
...dresses until he was six. As soon as he graduated to pants, he started sneaking off to play tackle football with the older kids in Akron, and the only way mom could get him home was to come after him with the sawed-off broomstick she used to stir the family wash. As an eighth-grader, Ara was everybody's nomination for Toughest Kid in school?even the Board of Education's. "They were having a lot of trouble with vandals breaking windows," recalls Older Brother Gerard, 43, a Toledo businessman. "So they just hired Ara to patrol the grounds...
Glittering Bird. The reason for Calder's unlimited scale is that he is a space prober. His mobiles stir through space like tree branches in a breeze. His stabiles (unmoving sculpture) are saurian girders that seem to slunk through the landscape, yet loom with a delicacy all their own. Yet their universality is shot through with humility. Visitors to the Guggenheim wandered beneath huge stabiles, paused to observe his The Only Only Bird (see opposite); it is a pop-like dodo made of beer and coffee cans whose title is drawn from a slogan on a can rather than...
Marriage Album. Everything had the power to stir Picasso's imagination. He kept owls, pigeons, even a smelly he-goat around the house. He loved to blow loudly on an old French army bugle. He was superstitious to a degree unsuspected in such an undisciplined liberal thinker. A hat thrown on a bed (meaning that someone in the house was going to die before the year was over) could throw him into a tantrum. Dancing was total depravity to Picasso, who was otherwise unbothered by convention...