Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week the bullrings and soccer stadiums were packed, as were the tapas bars of old Madrid. Late-hour diners filled restaurants, feasting on steaming plates of garlic chicken and stuffed squid swimming in its own black ink. Long queues formed outside cinemas featuring The Towering Inferno, and a Beethoven concert series played to sellout houses. Traffic blocked the capital's streets and tourists swarmed through hotel lobbies. "The only people who are nervous are those across the Pyrenees, those who are abroad," said a government official in Madrid. "We aren't nervous." Not yet, anyway...
...America in concert with our allies must maintain a defense capability second to none," he said, calling the Congressional proposals for $7.6-billion-dollar cuts in the defense budget "far too much...
...learning, assimilating all kinds of information, and accommodating his act to the big concert halls. Midway through the tour, he simply surpassed Baez; he was securing the future, and she was being left behind. Dylan planned a trip to England and invited her along. She agreed, assuming they would perform together. But when they got to Europe she was shunted aside. Dylan was contemplating a change to electric music, becoming increasingly suspicious about the press, and drawing closer to himself. It was a prolific period for him, but he was hell to be with and Joan finally picked...
...Thunder Revue will be roving around New England for the next month or so, turning up in various bars and concert halls on short notice. You'll have to be attentive if you want to catch it -- but then, keeping track of gypsies has never been an easy business...
...things people shouted out. "Do you remember Newport?" "Yeah, I remember Newport. All that madonna stuff. What a bore." The audience was content to listen to her but she was jumpy, assuring everyone not to worry, her would be back soon. "I've never been to a rock concert before, do people sing along at these things?" -- she was a little bit bitchy. The material was exactly what you would expect: "Joe Hill," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," and an a cappella "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" -- very competent, sort of boring. She also sang "Diamonds and Rust" from...