Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last concerts. For five years, Zappa and the eight other Mothers tried to make satiric hash of rock, displaying a suicidal urge, or so it seemed to many, to play music so weird, as Zappa put it, that "you just have to run screaming from the room the moment you hear us." To many people, Zappa, in fact, has often seemed to be a force of cultural darkness, a Mephistophelian figure serving as a lone, brutal reminder of music's potential for invoking chaos and destruction. Zappa sees himself merely as a devil's advocate who started...
...these two groups are not yet organized, if they ever will be. At least for the moment, the active debate over Shady Hill is mostly between the University and the Norton Woods Association...
...linked with the sexual revolution, radical polities and drugs. He finds working in Cambridge important because the city represents the very rationality that is choking us. "What's happening on stage must always be alive. That's why we don't have rehearsals anymore. The show is a dramatic moment, whose components are actors and an audience involved in time and space by what happens on stage. When an improvisation goes badly, the audience feels as badly as we do. So that dramatic moment cannot be approximated in a rehearsal...
...umpire, for instance, knew that Batter Cleon Jones had been hit on the foot by a pitch -until Manager Gilbert Hodges produced the ball with shoe blacking on it. Some said that Hodges had carried that smudged ball in his pocket all season long, waiting for the wonderful moment when it would be needed...
...best known of the three (and last week awarded the Order of the British Empire), was confined for 26 months in his Peking home-mostly in one room-solely in retaliation for the arrest of Communist Chinese agitators in Hong Kong during the riots of 1967. Describing "the worst moment of my two years" in an interview with a Reuters colleague, Grey told of the hot August night shortly after his capture, when some 200 Red Guards swarmed into his house and dragged him downstairs to the courtyard...