Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle of June these hearty alumni were subjected to near arctic weather that would have driven a sensible polar bear into hibernation. Third, Paul Del Rossi struck out seven in a row but nearly found himself en route to the shower room for wildness. The band was in tune...
...Merchandise Mart in Chicago. One well-attended bash, arranged by an aide of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, had all those Texas trimmings-including a garden display of some high points in Tish's career. Later, L.B.J. helped whoop it up for a set of lyrics (to the tune of St. James Infirmary Blues) dedicated to the capital's favorite blonde...
...broad dramatic purposes. The lines sung by Pelagia and the monk Nonnus, her father, maintain a sickly melancholy which seems quite inappropriate to her sins, the supposed point of it all. At the same time, when she appears, surrounded by suitors, it is always to the same cheery dance tune which first accompanied the banter of the two monks. Because Perera's popular melodies and Cole's humor fail to guide the opera's ideas and dramatic progression (as such devices do well in West Side Story), the product...
Block the Rejection. Medical men who hate eager chatter about "breakthroughs" because it raises false hopes in patients are willing to make one exception. They concede that it will indeed be a major breakthrough when a way is found to tune down the immune mechanism just enough so that a transplant will take and the patient will still have a defense against infectious diseases...
...artists, Andy Warhol. 31, best plays the part of what a pop artist might expectably be. In his studio, a single pop tune may blare from his phonograph over and over again. Movie magazines, Elvis Presley albums, copies of Teen Pinups and Teen Stars Albums litter the place. Warhol is known for his literal renditions of soup cans, his rows of Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor and Troy Donahue. He stencils them onto the canvas by the silk-screen process, then touches in the colors. Though the result can be excruciatingly monotonous, the apparently senseless repetition does have the jangling effect...