Word: label
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exodus of rock stars who are leaving Britain to escape stiff new tax laws. "I can't imagine going to live in Geneva," he says. "There is nothing there but people who've gone to Geneva." He would rather spend time worrying about his new record label, Rocket, which gives its artists much larger than standard royalties. It is a way of paying a debt to his profession, and though it is not a new idea, it is one to which Elton is uncommonly devoted...
...speaker could only be Woody Allen, disguised this time as Boris, a 19th century Slav. The label reads "Made in Czarist Russia," but the contents show Allen's familiar shlemiel ticket: the loser, surrounded by a world of hostile, if inanimate, objects...
Apart from the Venezuelan artist Jesus-Raphael Soto, only one of the painters on whom the Op label was stuck ten years ago seems to have really developed, continuing to produce work of the utmost seriousness. She is an Englishwoman named Bridget Riley, whose first New York show in seven years opened last week at the Sidney Janis Gallery...
...Radcliffe Quadrangle, the old individual forms have been institutionally if not architecturally amalgamated into two Houses, North and South. On the official Harvard University map, the label "Radcliffe Dormitories" has recently been replaced by the more unified title of "Radcliffe Quadrangle." It is not the proper character of this or any university to be regressive; we cannot let the Houses at the river or the quad river to dormitories...
...large numerically. I think most of us would agree that the gap in maturity is far from insignificant. The challenge of living with those of other ages is, I believe, a valuable and potentially rewarding experience for all. And a certain amount of "self-sacrifice," if the label must go to that extreme, might not be such a terrible fate for upperclassmen...