Word: talled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sides of the southern Rhodesian plateau, leaving a broad ridge bisecting the country. Men began to call the broad ridge the High Veld, for it was 4000 to 5000 feet above sea level. On the High Veld was, and is, life, in a rich, tropical savanna graced with tall grass and scattered umbrella-shaped trees. Africans once proudly owned and farmed it, but a century ago they were gradually pushed down its steep sides by the white settlers...
That is a tall order for Swenson and also for the Coop, which, until recently, had not given the problem much of its attention and is now busy with other matters, including planning for the new annex...
...style of playing is just right for Alkan. For him the concert stage is an arena, his mission "to slay the black dragon with the 88 gleaming teeth." To create the "proper atmosphere," he has the lights dimmed until he is little more than a silhouette on stage. A tall, hulking figure with a luxuriant growth of swept-winged black hair, he almost leaps off the bench to hammer home a fistful of crashing chords. In more reflective moods, he coaxes the music along with the suspenseful air of a man defusing a time bomb, then counterattacks with a dazzling...
...originating in Egypt, that only static rhythms can be its elements. For present-day perception, the most important elements of art are the kinetic rhythms." Only a year earlier, a fellow constructivist, Vladimir Tallin, had designed a Monument to the Third International, a glass and iron tower 900 ft. tall with three geometric tiers rotating according to the day, the month and the year. This technological salute to the Soviet Revolution never got off the drawing board...
...NICOLAS SCHÖFFER, 53, a Hungarian-born Parisian, builds Erector set-like perforated grids, convex mirrors and metal latticework. He views these not as art works but rather as the medium to express his vision of "spatiodynamics." His largest work to date is his 170-ft.-tall computerized Cybernetic Tower in Belgium, which emits sounds of street noises mixed with electronic music. Other works blink, twinkle, and swathe the space around them with elusive illuminations, sometimes changing 300 times a second like whirling dervishes of light...