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...Redman turned up the heat for the Sanders audience. With the support of his excellent rhythm section, Redman's composition, "Lyric," became a tour de force. The long, exotic ballad gradually increased in intensity and tempo until Redman gave the cue for a frenzied modal cycle which provided the framework for his most convincing playing of the evening. Finally, the patented falsetto shrieks had found an appropriate setting. The solo by pianist Peter Martin was one of many mesmerizing offerings by this quintessentially capable sideman...
...piece to piece. Some segments, such as the running motif of the men catching objects in mid-air with their mouths, began in reaction to the art the three men saw around them. "It started off with, 'Let's do action art," says Wink. "It started with an intellectual framework. Then it grew into 'Let's catch this, let's catch this and then it went into play. And little by little it turned out to be a comment on the art world...
...enterprise that began life at the blinding dawn of the nuclear age has achieved quite a lot during a passage singularly fraught with danger for the world. The U.N. has served as a forum for hair-trigger antagonists to meet regularly and vent their grievances. It has provided a framework for international laws that govern activities ranging from nuclear nonproliferation to the use of outer space and the ocean floors. It has helped unfortunate nations set up democracies, create livelihoods and combat threats to health. It has acted as a useful buffer in 35 peacekeeping missions, and more than...
...environmental decay and drug trafficking, as well as disease control-jobs no single country can manage. Says Eban: "In the end, the idea of world community is going to succeed. Therefore, the U.N. should dig in its heels and bide its time. The idea of living without a unitary framework of relations, now of all times, is just too crazy." History today may find the luminous San Francisco conference foolish, but it could yet decide: no, crazy-brave...
...movement has accomplished a great deal, I think. Among other achievements, it has enabled more black people to attend college than ever before and it has created a political framework allowing two black men, a reverend and a General, to run (or consider running) for president. But it really appears as if the movement has amounted to nothing because it has not destroyed the critical perceptions that necessitated its existence...