Word: superhumans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson went into the five races Sunday tied with U.R.I. Reeve dominated the seven races in Division A on Saturday, and Koch with John Robertsas crew averaged third to stay close to Bossett, who had what Horn termed a "superhuman day," collecting only 12 points in the seven races in Division B with four firsts, two seconds, and fourth...
...Mozart. Szell's demand for perfection from himself and his musicians grew from a lifelong, almost superhuman, discipline. A child prodigy, he could sing some 40 folk songs in four languages at the age of two. He could also scribble musical notations, he liked to recall, "that made no sense at all. That's the way the modern composers do it today." At four, he was slapping his mother's hand when she hit a wrong note on the piano...
...Bleu, two years later, keeps this power that disturbed his contemporaries. It uses darker but equally vigorous color, and a modeling that has the violence of a flung dishcloth or a snapped rope, to create a figure whose superhuman solidity bends light around it. That same year Matisse painted Le Luxe I. The difference between Luxe and Nu Bleu is the arrow of his creative consciousness: toward massed composition, flat surface, simplified color and, above all, a mood of subtly altered consciousness, which from then on became a major Matisse characteristic. He turns the viewer on to an exaltation, whether...
...country still prone to convulsions of superhuman idealism, Grass remains a man thoroughly distrustful of the soaring and the abstract. "I have no ideology, no Weltanschauung," he recently wrote to a friend. "The last one I had fell apart when I was 17 years...
...time passes with the mesmerizing speed of a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo. There could comfortably be even more. Using such intricate optical effects as split screen, overlapping and double framing, Wadleigh has expanded and enriched the original musical performances so that, in many cases, they seem to be almost superhuman...