Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Luckily for Spain, its development push coincided with a vast surge in the living standards of the rest of Western Europe. Hordes of Europeans with hard money in their pockets began pouring southward across the Pyrenees, lured by cheap prices, fiestas and bullfighting, by clear skies and endless beaches, by the ancient exotic attraction of a semi-Arab land that had dropped out of Europe with the Spanish Armada...
...Francophobe, "and it is a right we exercise to the fullest." One of Spain's most cherished institutions, in fact, is the tertulia, an informal club of a dozen or so men who gather around the same marble-topped table in the same cafe every week and, over endless cups of cafes solos and glasses of water, tear the regime apart. Such traditional hangouts as Madrid's Café Gijón will have a dozen or more tertulias going at the same time, their participants eagerly trading opinions, rumors and jokes about everything from women to bullfighting...
...wailing of a girl's voice (ecstasy). One of his favorite instruments is the Hungarian cimbalom, which looks like the innards of a piano and sounds like an oversexed harpsichord. Rather than treat each scene with "big masses of symphonic sound," he takes the opening theme and works endless variations on it. It is not Brahms, but in the shadowy world of the movie house it works a magic all its own; besides, who goes to films to hear music...
...York and remarried-to Actor Jason Robards Jr.-Bacall prefers to look forward. But, says a friend, "the past has a way of hounding Betty. She tries to look out the windshield, but there are always things there in the rearview mirror." Among the things are TV's endless Bogie-Bacall festivals. "Those movies," she says ruefully, "always come back to haunt me on that damn box." And there are the Bogie biographies, five released within the last year. "The paperback ones are written by hungry guys trying to get in on the madness and make a buck...
...Book, who is also credited with fathering off-Broadway's theater-in-the-round; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As tiny (4 ft. 10 in.) as a sparrow, Kiesler spent his life seeking "a continuously flowing world" in such structures as his free-form 1934 "Endless House," which had "no beginning and no end, like the human body...