Word: basse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TRANSPORTATION & TRAVEL. There are several movies in this building, but the one to catch is From Here to There, a short short created by Saul Bass for the United Airlines exhibit. It shows the unique view of the earth that the airplane affords...
TOLEDO. Spanish Chef Francisco Gon zalez from Madrid's Jockey Club turns out fine food (sea bass in parchment, tournedos, partridges with grapes of Almeria). Like the rest of the Spanish pavilion, the decor is elegant, and there is a small armada of trim, bolero-jacketed waiters. $5-$25. The pavilion's No. 2 restaurant, the Granada, serves an all-Spanish menu that features cold gazpacho soup, paella, sangria (red wine with soda) at slightly lower prices than the Toledo...
...SKYLINE MARINA is on another San Juan island, Fidalgo. While not so exclusive and luxurious as Blakely, it is well equipped with facilities for both boats and aircraft, and caters especially to fishing enthusiasts, who cherish its salmon and sea bass...
Died. Hamilton Basso, 59, journalist-novelist, a gentlemanly scholar from New Orleans who exiled himself to Connecticut in 1944, but kept trying to go home again with leisurely re-creations of the South's social distinctions, ancestor worship and tribal customs (from lynching to channel bass fishing), most successfully in his 1954 bestseller, The View from Pompey's Head; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn...
Pianist Charles Wuorinen's solo "Variations," a frantic and exhausting work, did more than demonstrate his incredible virtuosity at the keyboard. Single, timid treble notes undercut the frenetic, tempestuous rumblings of the bass keys as if the composer were sardonically mocking his own contemporary style. Radical shifts in volume and highly irregular rests produced an extraordinarily witty beginning to a piece which seemed to grow in creasingly bitter...