Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When at tacking modernist music, Eaton, for instance, favors dissonant jumps from one end of the keyboard to the other, violently plucks at the piano's innards to get a harp effect. Smith has developed a technique of aiming his clarinet directly at the piano strings to create weird and ghostly harmonics. A virtuoso on his instrument. Smith also likes to push his clarinet above top C or to engage in a series of strangely manipulated double and triple stoppings. The piece most startling to audiences is a concoction by Smith in which he improvises against a background tape...
...ensemble's cool jazz style is less weird, but technically just as adroit. With his left leg swinging, Pianist Eaton may toy with harmonies and tempi, bounce themes to the fluid clarinet, trade solos with the limpid trumpet. Underneath it all is a rock-solid bass. Last week the boys wound up with Long Ago and Far Away and a driving Summertime. The palazzo shivered, and the audience applauded. "An intellectual Newport," said a delighted U.S. composer as he made his way from the hall...
...distant bagpipe, growing louder. Hideous orchestral discords intrude. The stage and part of the auditorium fill with mist; and soon we make out a trio of witches, the first asking, "when shall we three meet again?" We settle down, ready to give ourselves over to the wonderfully weird and terrible universe that is Shakespeare's Macbeth...
...work recording, in words and pictures, the first 100 days of his new Administration. The contributors include men and women of such established reputation as Princeton's History Professor Eric F. (Rendezvous with Destiny) Goldman and the London Economist's Barbara Ward, but their product is a weird paste-up. Many of the critical hours and major problems of the 100 days are glossed over or overlooked. Laos is dismissed with four pictures. The Cuban invasion (which occurred on the 87th day of the new Administration) is reduced to a frantic, one-page epilogue. The book is stuffed...
...past couple of decades, many weird objects have been produced by the welding torch and palmed off as sculpture; but heat and metal and modern art do not always have to create monstrosities. One man who has proved this is 56-year-old José de Rivera, 15 of whose sculptures went on display last week at Manhattan's Whitney Museum. De Rivera's scoops and swoops of polished or painted metal are liquid geometry produced with such skill that neither hammer blow nor welded seam is ever visible...