Word: metal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Makes Sense. Playing with Coleman, who uses a white plastic sax with a warmer tone than the conventional metal instrument, are Charlie Haden (bass), Edward Blackwell (drums) and Don Cherry (trumpet). They all seemed to be going their own ways. The direction of any tune might change from bar to bar, depending on which musicians happened to have "the dominant ear at that moment." The drummer repeatedly shifted his rhythm, forcing concessions from the other players. At best, the result evoked an abstract expressionist painting whose dots, slashes and blobs are miraculously knitted into a pattern...
...door, and a generous helping of red paint mixed with bucket, cans and surgical gauze produces a grizzly montage called Capt Canaveral. But the show also has surprises of another sort. A 24-year-old Englishman named Anthony Magar has used burned and stained wood, stitched canvas and pounded metal to create a big picture that is as pleasing as an autumn landscape seen from...
...Buenos Aires, his first stop, where he was ostensibly an honored guest at Argentina's 150th birthday celebration. Dorticós slipped away to confer secretly with chiefs of the anti-government Peronista Metal Workers Union...
...Violent Instrument. Essentially, a shock tube is a strong-walled metal pipe, a few inches in diameter, from which the air can be pumped. At one end, a section is walled off by a copper diaphragm: that section is filled with an explosive mixture of oxygen and hydrogen. At the other end is a vacuum tank, and just ahead of it is a tiny nose-cone test model. When an electric spark explodes the oxygen-hydrogen, it bursts through the diaphragm and into the vacuum. Ahead of it rushes a hot shock wave that hits the test model at actual...
...Welsh, after all, and it's a safe presumption that in heaven they have the interests of their fellow countrymen at heart." In an office in London's Farm Street, headquarters of the canonization cause, a brand-new folder labeled MIRACLES was placed hopefully in a metal filing cabinet...