Word: concertedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost a decade ago, Pink Floyd played a 2½-hr. concert on the shores of the Crystal Palace pond in London. To enhance their trippy riffs and overweening crescendos, the Pinkies brought on a 50-ft. inflatable octopus and detonated a fireworks display. By the time of the first encore, all the fish in the lake had died, victims of the band's cosmic boom and crushing decibels...
...assembly will also continue to work for a library open 24 hours a day or extended beyond current closing times; a large-scale concert; and a dance marathon...
...tireless in the bedroom as on the road or concert platform. His chief paramour in this volume is the sensuous Italian contralto Gabriella Besan-zoni. She and Rubinstein tour Latin America like a couple of gypsy children, piling up gold pesos under their bed as they go. Other liaisons are briefer: the demimondaine "Charlottavotte," whom he enjoys between the lifeboats on a crossing to South America; the American actress who is so enchanted by his playing that she offers herself to him for the night as a tribute; and many a French bourgeoise "who apparently needed a diversion from...
...teacher to bring up the subject peoples, rather than keep them ignorant bondsmen as the feudals had done." Unlike their counterparts in Victorian England, though, these reformers were not grim. They were as bewitched as the rest of the world by Viennese high culture, the sheer sensuous pleasures of concert hall and opera house. They became crusading dilettantes, promising themselves a secular paradise, "Strong Through Law and Peace" and "Embellished Through...
Beginning roughly in the 1860s, two generations of well-to-do children were reared in the museums, theaters and concert halls of the new Ringstrasse. They acquired aesthetic culture not, as their fathers did, as an ornament to life or as a badge of status, but as the air they breathed ... The two children of the Wertheimsteins, one of Vienna's wealthiest intellectual society families, were privately tutored to be artists, and the 'artistic natures' of these melancholy neurotics were the subject of general appreciation. The great psychiatrist Theodor Meynert encouraged his son to a career...