Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then pass the costs on to customers. In any event, says Pechman, some form of reasonable restraint is needed now in the form of direct and selective intervention by Government, or by next summer "we are going to have general wage and price controls" enforced by a huge OPA-style bureaucracy such as existed during World...
...Ambassador to India), he published what he called his "labor of love." Asian Drama: An Inquiry Into the Poverty of Nations pointed up, in 2,500 pages, the economic, political and social factors that impede progress in the world's most populous area. An apostle of thoroughgoing Swedish-style planning, Myrdal is a socialist who became in the late 1960s-though professing a sincere affection...
...called "slide" or "bottleneck," a style of guitar playing in which something like a piece of broken glass is used to fret the strings to produce a strong, lowdown sound. A few decades ago it was the sound of a whole genus of American music that might be called backroads blues. Today its best exponent is Ry Cooder, a guitarist and singer of wry wit and concentrated energy who has extended the troubadour tradition of Woody Guthrie and fashioned a distinctive personality for himself from the shards of the American musical past...
Once daringly avantgarde, Parade today seems as revolutionary as, say, Coppelia. The Jeffrey dancers-notably Gary Chryst, who has frequently performed the original Massine role of the Chinese conjurer-have been wondrously successful in recapturing the setting and style of the original, and the work itself is performed in an engagingly ambivalent manner that seems to be saying both "Here it is, folks," and "Don't take all this too seriously." A little more of that frolicsome spirit might have helped Pulcinella. Meanwhile, there are plenty of other old Ballets Russes masterpieces just waiting for the Jeffrey treatment. Anyone...
With his "million-year-old Olmec Negro face," LaBas combines both art and religion with a down-home style that reaches back thousands of years to those silted-over times when the animism of black Africa was supposed to have seeped into Egypt...