Word: washing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also defended the tactics employed by the Administration in last fall's congressional campaigns, and said that the results were a "wash," with neither party having won a clear victory. "The object of that campaign was not to bring us together, but to defeat 15 Democratic Senators. On the national level we didas well as we expected, and not as well as we hoped. But any election where we defeat [Senators] Gore, Yarborough, Goodell and Tydings can't be all that...
...1950s. With piano, guitar and mandolin, it also enlists a soprano soloist and a full orchestra, runs 60 minutes, and is easily Boulez's most ambitious composition to date, outstripping even his 1955 Le Marteait sans Maitre. Severely serial, the work begins with a crash and a delicate wash of impressionism, a mixture of Debussy and Webern. Much of it glitters with the percussive polka-dotting of pointillism; all of it is abstract, moving in tiers of timbres, skeletal in its economy. Like Stravinsky, Boulez treats the human voice instrumentally rather than vocally. Soprano Halina Lukomska copes expertly, though...
...PENNEBAKER, No. 126263 Washington State Reformatory Monroe, Wash...
...nineteenth-century Westerners. Instead, they turn the conventions of the Western into a series of burlesque gags. Candice spends half her time trying to seduce the virginal Strauss-she delightedly rips off piece after piece of her disintegrating dress before eventually changing into a Raquel Welch 2000 Years B.C. wash cloth-only to resist the eager lad when he finally gets it up by demurring with a sincere, "Honus, tell me, do you really mean it?" Hell, lady, you don't go around shoving your boobs in the poor kid's face and then start preaching situation ethics...
Till waves wash up the dead beast...