Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Berio has begun to create a new kind of music-drama, a miniaturized answer to the Wagnerian epics of the last century. His Sequenza V for trombone is really a theater piece which grows out of a musical core. Body movements are a carefully indicated in the score as the notes. There are instructions about standing and sitting, and the position of the instrument as well as the usual grunts and vowel sounds. To add to the effect, the player is expected to wear a clown costume. It is this sense of theater, this reliance on dramatic rather than musical...
...decide exactly what that reason might be, but she has some ideas. "If I had the answer to how that kind of screw-up could happen. I could make a million dollars--for being a consultant. The closest thing I can come to explaining it is the fear factor--the idea that people in television are scared because there's so much money involved. Nobody wants to take the blame and so they have this kind of group decision-making where they all sit around a table and then somebody will say 'How about--?" and then nobody will...
...Europe and-I assure you-the people of North America are thoroughly tired of having their hopes raised and then shattered by empty words and unfulfilled pledges. We had better say what we mean and mean what we say, or we will have the anger of our citizens to answer. They will ask us how these noble sentiments are being translated into actions...
Even today, party members are reluctant to discuss their underground activities. "After all," says Party Chief Alvaro Cunhal, 61, "we may have to go back underground some day." His deputy, Octavio Pato, claims that good organization has at least partly been the answer: "There were big cells and small cells, a structure that was relatively centralized. The overwhelming majority of the Central Committee was inside Portugal, and that is one of the reasons the party managed to survive." Indeed, according to António Dias Lourenço, editor of the Communist weekly Avante, the party emerged from hiding with...
...Smile, a comedy manqué about a teen-age beauty contest. Next month, he starts work on Won Ton Ton, a farce about the 1920's legendary wonder dog, Rin Tin Tin, in which he plays an old-line Hollywood director. But keeping busy is not the only answer. Says Agent Freddie Fields: "Bruce needs to make love to a woman on the screen." In his 19-year career, Bruce has only kissed a woman once. She was Karen Black in Gatsby. "And then the script had me break her nose -very romantic," says Dern. Other stars, like Gene...