Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supplementary events, and the big show -- the night-time screenings -- fell short of expectations on several levels. The short subjects (lasting approximately 20 minutes each night) were dreadful, pretentious and unimaginative film-making, almost without exception most of the shorts were made on animation stands, and consisted of endless zooming, tracking, and panning around someone's photographs, drawings, or statuary...
...Christian, democratic, enterprising-and far wealthier than the Northerners. The Yoruba Westerners, whose capital of Ibadan (pop. 750,000) is Nigeria's largest city and the world's largest shantytown, are farmers and small traders whose passions are High-Life music and politics, often accompanied by endless draughts of pungent palm wine...
...instruction in medical technology. Now a dozen institutions are reaching for help from nearby technical schools. And they are training a whole new breed of surgeons. Working along with engineers and scientists, says Dr. Boatman, these men will develop new techniques-for heart trouble, strokes, cancer-the list is endless...
...enjoying and participating in the activities of the day. Along and around these public ways would be grouped the various activities of the center: banks, stores, restaurants, offices, schools, housing. Care must be taken not to create monotonous concourses of commerce where people tend to become lost in the endless repetition of store fronts. Nodes of activity must be created. Scale must change from wide busy pedestrian malls to intimate little walkways. Some of these pedestrian ways should be open to the sun, some enclosed; some should have surroundings which are high and spacious, some low and confining...
With his reputation burgeoning, Handy has now become the subject of the jazz aficionados' favorite diversion: endless treatises delving into his musical roots. The pedants find meaningful traces of Bartok and Shostakovich, of rhythm and blues and bebop, of African rhythms and Indian ragas, of Saxophonist Benny Carter (in the upper register) and of Clarinetist George Baquet (in the trills). John Handy hears differently. "More and more," says he, "I sound like John Handy...