"Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly Women" Opens September 24. Keep an eye here and on our webpage for associated programming. We're planning events for both the a⋯⋯
By donating his Picasso-riffing piece Gazing Ball (Charity), Jeff Koonsraised money for vaccination and education programmes – and he’s part of an art world increasingly given to donations of valuable work
“I remember very well [Jimi] sitting on the bed or the floor at home in Brook Street; sometimes he would play a riff for hours until he had it just right. Then he’d throw his head back and laugh. Those were the moments he’d got it right for himself, not for anyone else.”
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was condemned for eternity to push a boulder up a hill only for it to roll down again. Over in San Francisco, artist Lee Materazzi decided to create her own mini version of the myth in her garage. She painstakingly created installations and as soon as they were done she dismantled them and started something new... (via Guardian culture)
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was condemned for eternity to push a boulder up a hill only for it to roll down again. Over in San Francisco, artist Lee Materazzi decided to create her own mini version of the myth in her garage. She painstakingly created installations and as soon as they were done she dismantled them and started something new... (via Guardian culture)
'I, Hogarth'
By MICHAEL DEAN
Reviewed by ANDREA WULF
Michael Dean's novel imagines the bawdy, philanthropic life of the painter William Hogarth.
Rift Widens Over Mining of Uranium in Virginia
By TRIP GABRIEL
CHATHAM, Va. — Bills introduced to the General Assembly would lift a
moratorium on uranium mining at a site in southern Virginia, but the
issue has divided the region.
Travis Dove for The New York Times
On Religion
A Rape Survivor Ministers Body and Soul
By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN
Marcia Mount Shoop, a Presbyterian minister, has used her experience of
being sexually attacked at 15 to develop teachings aimed at the rift
between mind and body.
Poetry of Wallace Stevens
Peter Quince at the Clavier I
Just as my fingers on these keys
Make music, so the self-same sounds
On my spirit make a music, too.
Music is feeling, then, not sound;
And thus it is that what I feel,
Here in this room, desiring you,
Thinking of your blue-shadowed silk,
Is music. It is like the strain
Waked in the elders by Susanna;
Of a green evening, clear and warm,
She bathed in her still garden, while
The red-eyed elders, watching, felt
The basses of their beings throb
In witching chords, and their thin blood
Pulse pizzicati of Hosanna.
II
In the green water, clear and warm,
Susanna lay.
She searched
The touch of springs,
And found
Concealed imaginings.
She sighed,
For so much melody.
Upon the bank, she stood
In the cool
Of spent emotions.
She felt, among the leaves,
The dew
Of old devotions.
She walked upon the grass,
Still quavering.
The winds were like her maids,
On timid feet,
Fetching her woven scarves,
Yet wavering.
A breath upon her hand
Muted the night.
She turned --
A cymbal crashed,
Amid roaring horns.
III
Soon, with a noise like tambourines,
Came her attendant Byzantines.
They wondered why Susanna cried
Against the elders by her side;
And as they whispered, the refrain
Was like a willow swept by rain.
Anon, their lamps' uplifted flame
Revealed Susanna and her shame.
And then, the simpering Byzantines
Fled, with a noise like tambourines.
IV
Beauty is momentary in the mind --
The fitful tracing of a portal;
But in the flesh it is immortal.
The body dies; the body's beauty lives.
So evenings die, in their green going,
A wave, interminably flowing.
So gardens die, their meek breath scenting
The cowl of winter, done repenting.
So maidens die, to the auroral
Celebration of a maiden's choral.
Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings
Of those white elders; but, escaping,
Left only Death's ironic scraping.
Now, in its immortality, it plays
On the clear viol of her memory,
And makes a constant sacrament of praise.
Happy Sweating and Singing
By BEN BRANTLEY
"Lysistrata Jones," a new musical by Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn, is a modern riff on Aristophanes' bawdy comedy.
Worries Grow Over Gulf Rift
The U.A.E.'s central bank said it would pump liquidity into local banks, but didn't offer specific support to Dubai, raising worries of a rift.
spread,
informal A large and impressively elaborate meal:his mother laid on a huge spread
rift
n.spread,
informal A large and impressively elaborate meal:his mother laid on a huge spread
rift
- A narrow fissure in rock.
- A break in friendly relations: a rift between siblings.
v., rift·ed, rift·ing, rifts. v.intr.
To split open; break.
v.tr.
To cause to split open or break.
[Middle English, of Scandinavian origin.]
rift2 (rĭft)
n.
- A shallow area in a waterway.
- The backwash of a wave that has broken upon a beach.
riff
(rĭf) 
n.
n.
- Music. A short rhythmic phrase, especially one that is repeated in improvisation.
- A clever or inventive commentary or remark: "Those little riffs that had seemed to have such sparkle over drinks ... look all too embarrassing in cold print" (John Richardson).
To play or make riffs.
[Origin unknown.]
riff
Rabelais's Gargantua bawdily refers to it as "Saint Patrick's hole".
bawdyriff
Pronunciation: /rɪf /
Definition of riff in English:
[ NO OBJECT]
NOUN
1A short repeated phrase in popular music and jazz, frequently played over changing chords or harmonies or used as a background to a solo improvisation:a brilliant guitar riff
VERB
Origin
1930s: perhaps an abbreviation of refrain2.
Urban Dictionary: Raff
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Riff Raff was born Horst Simco in Houston, Texas, on January 29, 1982 to parents Anita Simco, a maid, and Ronald Simco, a Vietnam War veteran with severe ...Rabelais's Gargantua bawdily refers to it as "Saint Patrick's hole".
(bô'dē)
adj., -i·er, -i·est.
- Humorously coarse; risqué.
- Vulgar; lewd.
bawdiness bawd'i·ness n.
bawdy
- [形]（-i・er, -i・est）〈人・話・場所が〉俗悪な, 下品な, みだらな.bawd・i・ly[副]bawd・i・ness[名]
- bawdyhouse
- [名]((古))売春宿, 女郎屋.
English
tambourine
: a small drum; especially : a shallow one-headed drum with loose metallic disks at the sides played especially by shaking or striking with the hand
鈴鼓（Tambourine），亦可稱為搖鼓。鼓框為圓形，直徑由8吋至14吋不等，以木或金屬製造，並且鑲有多組金屬片。當敲打樂器時，同時令金屬片互相撞擊而發出近以馬鈴的聲音，因而得名。
鈴鼓的其中一邊鼓面可以模上鼓膜。鼓膜主要由動物皮（羊皮或牛皮）所做成。
