Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wherever one looks these days, be it Africa, the Middle East or Latin America, the U.S., the self-proclaimed promoter of democracy, is almost always on the side of the business elite, military juntas or tin-pot dictators--not on the side of the poor and downtrodden. Terror is the weapon the weak are wielding against the superpower. RANI-VILLEM PALO Camrose, Alta...
Eric Pooley only scratched the surface in writing of Jimmy Buffett's appeal to his Parrothead fans the world over [SHOW BUSINESS, Aug. 17]. Buffett is a folk, country, rock-'n'-roll, calypso, Latin, honky-tonk, Big Band, reggae, bebop, Tin Pan Alley, zouk, polka singer. He has become a spokesman for those of us who still enjoy being "the people our parents warned us about." For 364 days of the year, we deal with unadulterated crap, but on the 365th, Buffett comes to town and we slip away to Margaritaville. Being a Parrothead isn't without its responsibilities, however...
...next week Sue Musser of Selkirk's market will be eagerly serving customers for the first time. She predicts that her pie sales will double to 1,200, thanks to pastry reform. (Whole-pie sales were always allowed, but really, who wants to lug around a 10-in. tin while you're strolling around a festival?) And how about the industry leader? Suzi Anderton, Sara Lee's liaison for the festival, claims not to be nervous. "Competition is great. May the best...
...modern sculpture is bound up with welding and assembling images from sheet metal, rather than modeling in clay, casting in bronze or carving in wood; and this tradition of the open constructed form rather than solid mass arose from one small guitar that Picasso snipped and joined out of tin in 1912. If collage--the gluing of previously unrelated things and images on a flat surface--became a basic mode of modern art, that too was due to Picasso's Cubist collaboration with Braque. He was never a member of the Surrealist group, but in the 1920s...
...final statement on pre-rock pop," as Will Friedwald, the invaluable Sinatra scholar, recently wrote of the Songs for Swingin' Lovers! album, released in 1956 and generally considered Sinatra's finest LP. "Something radically different just had to come next," Friedwald continues, "because nothing in the realm of Tin Pan Alley could top this bravura celebration of grown-up love." You can't sum up Sinatra's achievement more succinctly than that...