Word: fountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mournful Wails. What they offer is a big, glossy, geared-up show. Flashing, multicolored panels of lights flank a glistening fountain in the background, while two go-go girls shimmy in the foreground. The band, massed in a double row facing the audience, is a discotheque in itself. While punching out blues riffs over a pile-driving beat, the brass and saxophone players whirl their instruments around and swivel through the shing-a-ling, the funky Broadway, and other loose-jointed steps-some of their own devising. Leaders in each section use hand signals to cue the choreography...
...view at Manhattan's 1913 Armory Show. The gaunt, enigmatic Frenchman proceeded to thumb his nose all the more vigorously at the pantheon of art. He painted a mustache and goatee on a Mona Lisa reproduction, put his own portrait on a perfume bottle, submitted a urinal titled Fountain to a 1917 salon, made reviewers dizzy with swiveling patterns driven by electric motors and designed a foam-rubber breast labeled Please Touch. After ten years, Duchamp's energetic nihilism reached its logical conclusion-he retired from painting. But by then his rejection of everything that had gone before...
...theory. It proved to be unfounded. Kane's big problem was not belligerence; it was entirely a matter of timing. McLain kept moving so fast that Kane hardly had a chance to ask all the necessary questions. Kane found himself taking notes while chatting at the water fountain in the Tiger dugout, while chasing his man through hotel lobbies, in between sessions at a television studio and on the warm-up mound in the stadium bullpen. His biggest break came when the brakes locked on a plane that was bringing the Tiger star from Boston to New York. McLain...
...Romans had also anticipated the roadside refreshment stand by building a bar at the edge of the road, complete with earthen vases in which beverages were kept cool. A chariot driver could pull up to the bar and drink standing up while his horses drank at an adjacent fountain...
...Rome are among the world's most aggressive. Known locally as "pappagalli" (parrots) for their incessant and provocative chatter ("Eh, bella, you speaka English? Wanna spaghetti? I give you little spaghetti, huh?"), they trail women tourists through the Via Veneto, along the Spanish Steps, and around the Fountain of Trevi. Gabbing often gives way to grabbing, and the pappagalli are adept at supplementing their spiels with patting, pinching and poking...