Word: tahiti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...transmitted through the atmosphere and interconnected oceans, disrupted global weather; some scientists believe that is contributing to the unseasonably hot summer east of the Rocky Mountains. Storm centers moved to new paths in mid-Pacific, causing unusual storms in Hawaii and the worst recorded hurricane in the history of Tahiti. Peruvian officials estimate that overheated ocean waters destroyed about one-half of that nation's normal commercial fishing catch. Winds, waves and storms smashed California beaches last winter, while Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, southern Africa and southern India all suffered from drought. "A year of natural catastrophe...
...work, staged by the Houston Grand Opera as part of a triple commission by the Kennedy Center and La Scala, is a two-hour sequel to Bernstein's 1952 Trouble in Tahiti, a one-act gem stone that gently chided the false contentment of the burgeoning new American suburbs, while poignantly focusing on the failing marriage of an archetypal couple, Sam and Dinah. In its fluid, assured handling of styles, its economy of means and its genuine melodic inspiration, Trouble in Tahiti is a small masterpiece...
Oleg Grabar, the maestro of Fine Arts 13, would like to do a little travelling himself--a week in Florida or Tahiti is his version of the ideal Christmas gift. And the simplest request of all comes form Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, the Government professor whose average grades are legendary for their coincidence with his middle initial--a nice bottle of cognac is his gift of choice. Try the Harvard Pro, Gov jocks...
Obviously, these early modernists were formalists; what artist, at some level, is not? But their ambitions went beyond that, into the realm of symbolic meaning. This was particularly true of Van Gogh and of Gauguin, who eventually went to Tahiti in order to paint huge allegories of human fate. One sees this interest already in Brittany paintings like Woman in the Hay, an image drenched in anonymous sexuality, whose half-nude peasant woman sprawled on the hay is quoted directly from one of the female slaves in Delacroix's Death of Sardanapalus. These early modernists were not, after...
Americans tune in for pleasure as well as news. Stewart MacKenzie, who heads the American Shortwave Listeners Club, loves the swaying music he hears from Radio Tahiti in the South Pacific. Others simply like to be on top of things. Short-wave fans were among the first to learn of the fire that destroyed the Prinsendam in the Gulf of Alaska last October and were able to follow rescue attempts, as other craft radioed their moves...