Word: darting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lunge, Dart, Pierce. Unlike the contemporary cubists, who had moved steadily away from subject matter, the futurists depended on subjects as their springboard. Gino Severini prized abstract, rhythmic forms that could evoke associations involving all the senses. His Dynamic Hieroglyph of the Bal Tabarin (see color) is a jumbled panorama of twirling skirts, a laughing face, the monocle of an aristocratic cafégoer, hints of music and noise through words ("valse," "polka," "bowling...
Slow as the courtroom proceedings were to the spectaters, they seemed even slower for Seeger. Occasionally listening attentively, occasionally deedling on a scratch pad, he could also be sees drumming a little tune on the top of the dart mahogany table...
...lush valleys, where the living was easy, and lorded it over the darker, aboriginal inhabitants who are still known in Laos today as Kha (slaves). To the hills came a fierce assortment of immigrants: Black Thai and White Thai, Yao and Youne and Meo. Adept with the poisoned dart, the crossbow and the animal pit, the 80-odd hill tribes dislike the valley-dwelling Lao and number about half the country's 2,000,000 population...
While sales of all auto companies are falling behind because of the business turndown, Chrysler leads them down with a hefty 39% drop in mid-January under last year. What is worse, the models hardest hit are the very ones that were counted on for the best sales-Dodge Dart, Plymouth and Valiant. The Dart, a big reason for Chrysler's good year in 1960, is selling poorly this year. The new Lancer compact, sold by Dodge dealers, has not caught...
Henry Cowell, 63, turned up in Kansas City for the première of his 22-minute Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra. Using 64 percussion instruments, the concerto featured five percussion "soloists," whose duties proved so complex that they had to dart about the stage. Among the instruments employed: Chinese gongs, temple blocks, tom-toms, marimbas, vibraphones, Pyrex mixing bowls, a xylophone, a celesta, a glockenspiel. For all its fearsome instrumentation, the concerto proved to be one of Cowell's more immediately appealing works - alternately delicate and boisterous, crosshatched with curiously shifting rhythms. Less stark than the works...