Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about life and about art. His new film, Blow-Up, deals with the difficulty of commitment to a worthwhile life through art. Antonioni's fashion photographer hero, a 25-year-old dissipated cherub brilliantly played by David Hemmings, has learned how to ride the crest of the mod culture wave; he got rich quick, drives a Rolls, and takes sex and marijuana with the casual detachment that marks him and his kind. He seems, as Time describes, "a little fungus that is apt to grow in a decaying society...
...Washington and lasted late into Sunday night. The delay forced them to shift the delivery date from Sunday to Monday--from a slow news day to a very heavy one. Although they attempted to extend coverage by holding a general press conference, they were swamped by the Monday wave of Washington news...
...only visible effect of Ev's new-found role as a pop recording star is that his hair, which was duplicated, ringlet by unruly ringlet, in a recent sculpture by Rube Goldberg, now cascades over his ears and down his neck with Joanie Phoanie abandon, and the great wave atop his head looks as if it had been locked in place with Living Curl. In a certain light, there even seems to be a new tint of gold among the silver threads-though only his hairdresser knows for sure...
...played, he flew off on melodic tangents that were by turns coy and playful, ten der and savage. Then, taking up his flute, he turned philosopher, evoked the soft and misty moods of a man looking back on sunnier days. Love Vibrations. Lloyd is the newest prophet of New Wave jazz - the freeform explorations made familiar by such saxmen as John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. His rapport with his sidemen, especially inventive Pianist Keith Jarrett, verges on the extrasensory. The quartet's appeal is that, for all its flights of fancy, its fractured rhythms and criss-crossing harmonies...
...previous limits while retaining its lyrical, earthy feeling," he formed his own group in 1965 and toured Europe, where he was an immediate sensation. He walked off with top critical honors in virtually every jazz festival in which he played. Back home now, where the acceptance of New Wave jazz is luke- warm at best, the pickings are still slim. Behind his tinted glasses, Lloyd broods quietly about his future. Now 28, he says sadly: "So few have really gotten through. That's what terrifies me. Women have taken them, or drugs, or something else has happened to prevent...