Word: alhambra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Escher's work was involved with many of the notions current in the more abstract sciences. The obsessive patternmaking, which appeared after he saw the Moorish tilework in the Alhambra during a visit to Spain in 1932, became a visual demonstration of field theory -for there is no "foreground" or "background" in Escher's mosaics. The outline of one figure instantly becomes the boundary of another...
...NEWCOMER Alhambra, Calif...
...first time John Hammond heard Bessie Smith sing was in October 1927 at the Alhambra Theater in Harlem. He was 16, and, at his parents' insistence he went to the 6 o'clock show and got home early. "Bessie didn't mess with the mike," Hammond recalls. "She was just up there belting. She had come up before the days of the microphone, and so she had developed a pair of pipes you couldn't believe. Billie Holiday and Mildred Bailey-the ones that came after her-all had small voices. You couldn't hear...