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29 高龄老人摩西的艺术创作历程
DATE=4-20-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #814 - Grandma Moses Show
BYLINE=Caty Weaver
HOST:
（Start at 55"）The American (1) artist known as Grandma Moses did not begin (2) painting until she was more than seventy-five years old. But her work soon was popular around the world. Shep O'Neal tells about her paintings now being shown in Washington, D-C.
ANNCR:
Jane Kallir (kuh-leer) is an (3) expert on the art of Grandma Moses. Mizz Kallir's grandfather was an art dealer in New York City. He organized Grandma Moses's first major show in Nineteen-Forty.
Sixty-one years later, Mizz Kallir is the guest organizer for a show of Grandma Moses's work. It is called "Grandma Moses in the Twenty-First Century." The （4）exhibit is at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
About ninety paintings are in the show. The colorful pictures show everyday life in small farming villages during the last century. That is the kind of life Grandma Moses knew in the states of New York and Virginia.
Grandma Moses wrote that her art was a （5）combination of memory and hope. There is a sense of well being in most of the paintings. The people look healthy and happy. Farmhouses and other buildings appear strong and well built. The farm animals are clean and fat. The grass is deep green. The snow is pure white.
But the life shown is not an easy one. Many of Grandma Moses's paintings show the hard labor connected to farm life. Men are gathering hay and hunting. Women are (6) sewing quilts and taking care of children.
Mizz Kallir writes that Grandma Moses used pictures in magazines and newspapers to help create her paintings. She cut out the pictures of people, animals and other things. She placed the cuttings on a piece of wood and drew around them. Then she painted them. This gives her subjects a flat quality.
Grandma Moses's name was Anna Mary Robertson Moses. She began painting when the disease （7）arthritis prevented her from doing the sewing she loved. She showed her paintings at country fairs and stores. An art collector discovered them and had them shown in New York City. By the early Nineteen-Fifties, Grandma Moses was famous around the world.
Grandma Moses died in Nineteen-Sixty-One at the age of one- hundred- one. She had produced more than one- thousand- six- hundred paintings in the last twenty years of her life.
美国的传统节日--复活节
DATE=4-20-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #814 - Easter Traditions
BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach
HOST:
(Start at 4'34")Our VOA listener question this week comes from Germany. Michael Westphal asks about Easter (1) customs in the United States.
Christians in the United States celebrated Easter last Sunday, April fifteenth. (2) Easter is the day (3) Christians believe that （4）Jesus Christ rose from the dead about two- thousand years ago. Most Christians believe Jesus was sent to Earth to save humans from （5）wrongdoing, and to give them everlasting life.
Thousands of American churches held services outside on Easter morning. This tradition is very old. It probably was started by Moravian Christians in the Eastern State of Pennsylvania in 1743. This Moravian service of praise still is held today.
Sunrise services in the United States are usually planned to include members of many Christian religious groups. One of the most famous takes place at the Hollywood Bowl, an outdoor center in Los Angeles, California. People arrive the night before to try to gain attendance to this event.
Many Americans also observe Easter customs not directly linked to religious tradition. People in many cities walk through the streets on Easter morning after attending church. Each year, thousands of people in New York City wear new clothes to take part in this Easter (6) parade on Fifth Avenue.
Some families color eggs and hide them for their children to find. Parents say a rabbit leaves the Easter eggs. The rabbit is known as the Easter （7）Bunny. Here in Washington, a big celebration takes place each year the day after Easter. The President of the United States invites children to play a game rolling colored Easter eggs on the grounds around the White House.
President Rutherford Hayes and his wife, Lucy, started this American Easter (8) tradition in Eighteen-Seventy-Eight. This year, rain forced officials to cancel the White House Easter Easter_Egg Roll. But the children who had planned to take part got a special tour of the White House, and received a wooden Easter egg instead.
美国流行音乐家约翰·菲利浦
DATE=4-20-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #814 - John Phillips
BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach
HOST:
(Start at 7'55")American （1）singer and songwriter John Phillips died last month. He is best known as a member of the （2）popular Nineteen-Sixties singing group "The Mamas and the Papas." Shirley Griffith has more.
ANNCR:
John Phillips was singing with a （3）folk group in New York City in the Nineteen-Sixties. He and his wife Michelle formed The Mamas and the Papas with two friends, Denny Doherty and Cass Elliot. They moved to California in Nineteen-Sixty-Five.
The group recorded songs John Phillips had written. Their first big hit was one he wrote after walking through New York on a snowy day. It is "California Dreaming'."
((CUT 1: CALIFORNIA DREAMIN')
The Mamas and the Papas had other hit records. They performed all over the world. The group won a （4）Grammy award in Nineteen-Sixty-Six for another song John Phillips wrote, "Monday, Monday."
((CUT 2: MONDAY, MONDAY))
The Mamas and the Papas broke up in Nineteen-Sixty-Eight. John and Michelle Phillips ended their marriage. He wrote songs for other （5）performers. John Phillips had problems with alcohol and drugs and talked publicly about them. He was arrested for （6）illegal drug use in Nineteen-Eighty. He suffered health problems, including a liver -transplant operation in Nineteen-Ninety-Two. John Phillips continued to write and record music. He completed a new album just before he died.
We leave you now with another hit song written by John Phillips and recorded by the Mamas and the Papas, "I Saw Her Again."
注释：
（1） artist[ 5B:tist ]n.艺术家, 画家
（2） painting[ 5peintiN ]n.上油漆, 着色v.描绘
（3） expert[ 5ekspE:t ]n.专家, 行家adj.老练的, 内行的
（4） exhibit[ i^5zibit ]v.展出, 陈列n.展览品
（5） combination[ 7kCmbi5neiFEn ]n.结合, 联合
（6） sewing[ 5sEuiN ]n.裁缝, 缝纫
（7） arthritis[ B:5Wraitis ]n.关节炎
注释：
(1) custom[ 5kQstEm ]n.习惯, 风俗,海关v.定制
(2) Easter [5i:stE] n. [宗](耶稣) 复活节
(3) Christian[ 5kristjEn ]n.基督徒, 信徒adj.基督教的, 信基督教的
(4) Jesus[ 5dVi:zEs ]n.耶稣(基督教信奉的救世主)
(5) wrongdoing[`rCN`dU:IN;`rR:N-]n.坏事, 不道德行为
(6) parade[ pE5reid ]n.游行, 炫耀v.游行, 炫耀
(7) bunny[ 5bQni ]n.小兔子(儿童对兔子的昵称)
(8) tradition[ trE5diFEn ]n.传统, 惯例
注释：
(1) singer[ 5sindVE ]n.歌手
(2) popular[ 5pCpjulE ]a.通俗的, 流行的, 受欢迎的
(3) folk[ fEuk ]n.人们, 亲属(复数), 民族adj.民间的
(4) Grammy[`^rAmI]n.格莱美奖
(5) performer[pE5fC:mE(r)]n.表演者
(6) illegal[ i5li:^El ]adj.违法的, 不合规定的
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