Word: valery
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of what went on at the competition was like the history of the accordion itself-inconclusive and tinged with melancholy. But the serious contestants vindicated the proceedings with disciplined and evocative efforts on behalf of composers ranging from Bach to Hans Brehme. The winner was a Russian, Valeri Petrov. His two runners-up: Fellow Countryman Anatole Senin, who alternately coaxed from his instrument both the organlike richness and wintry delicacy necessary for Bach's organ Concerto in A-Minor, and American Pam Barker, who survived the technical terrors of Khatchaturian's Piano Concerto with impressive calm...
...Russia's world record-holding high juniper Valeri Brumel, 23, in a Moscow hospital with a double fracture of the right knee suffered when his motorcycle skidded on a Moscow street; Comic Art Carney, 47, resting in a Hartford (Conn.) sanitarium after what his manager called "nervous tension, depression and a lot of things I won't go into" forced him to abandon his role in Broadway's The Odd Couple; TV Actress (Peyton Place) Dorothy Malone, 35, mending in Hollywood's Cedars of Lebanon Hospital after a dangerous seven-hour operation to remove massive blood...
...forms which abstract painters later took up. At the current Venice Biennale, 81 of his works are being exhibited in posthumous tribute. Such richly toned collages as Painting with Stars are formed with striking and harmonious patterns composed with discipline and almost geometric precision. "His collages," wrote Critic Diego Valeri, "are little miracles-tasteful, sensitive, communicative, and even touching. To the unwary eye, they may seem mere exercises in patience. But to the discriminating onlooker, they turn out to be small but exquisite works...