Word: heather
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...handling of last winter's record blizzards helped bury the political career of for mer Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic. Now a sculpture of Bilandic and his socialite wife Heather, by John Setick, has created another blizzard, this one of controversy. Sefick's The Bilandics, which the sculptor describes as "a Chicago rendition of Grant Wood's American Gothic, "went on display in the city's Daley Center in mid-November. The work depicts the couple relaxing, with a taped voice coming from the former mayor's figure saying: "Put another log on the fire, Heather...
...Entwistle says. "Groupies are part of that. They build up my ego, make me feel that I'm a star." Alison Entwistle has a different attitude: "I hate being at home when he is on the road. I know groupies are part of it, and I hate them all." Heather Daltrey says she doesn't bother about such things...
Daltrey lives a safe two-hour drive from the others, in a 17th century mansion surrounded by 300 acres of lush farm land in Sussex. He has an American wife, Heather, two daughters, Willow and Rosie, and a son by a previous marriage. He exercises to keep in trim, but had to give up working with weights because his broadening shoulders only exaggerated his stature or, at 5 ft. 7 in., his lack of it. There is nothing much he can do about his hearing. Like Townshend's, it has been impaired by long exposure to maximum amplification. "When...
...melodies, as Webern predicted. Many listeners may never get past what sounds cryptic and arid to them in his work. But these new discs show to what extent performers have mastered his difficult idiom in the past two decades. Among the highlights: the feathery shading of Soprano HeatheR Harper's pitch in the early songs; the tensile, wire-sculpture precision of members of the Juilliard String Quartet in the String Trio (1927); the transparent textures and rhythmic subtlety of Boulez and the L.S.O. in Variations for Orchestra...
Most of the time the Faculty Council has already decided, Brown explains, and CUE approval is "just a formality." Heather McClave, professor of English and former CUE member, criticizes the students' fatalistic attitude, claiming they may in some cases push their ideas through, though the process is "an uphill battle...