Word: filles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...atmosphere at Zarzuela was relaxed and, as palaces go, even homey. There was little sense of urgent state business at hand. Observed TIME's Madrid bureau chief, Gavin Scott: "Juan Carlos gave the impression that he had been cast in a role and he was ready to fill it out of a sense of patriotism. But there was nothing to suggest an eagerness for power...
Buckley commented that the chair is difficult to fill because it is interdisciplinary and that there is some disagreement as to whether its occupant should teach about Canada or just be an eminent Canadian scholar...
Last May an ad hoc faculty committee presented Dean Rosovsky and President Bok with a list of people who might fill the interdisciplinary chair...
Maybe Bronson gets his lift from the visuals, then: he looks like a statue placed perfectly to fill in these scenes. Indeed, if there's one problem with Hill's tableau, it's that the period stuff looks a little stagy and flat (less so than most contemporary American movies set in the urban thirties, The Sting, Lady Sings the Blues, etc., but tacky compared to what the Europeans can do, maybe because they have the buildings and untouched sections of cities to do it with). In this case perhaps Bronson-the beaten face, the mistrustful eyes-is just another...
This drive to fill the musical space also lies behind the 12-tone method. When eleven of the twelve tones have been heard, Rosen argues, the one missing note creates a tension much like a dissonance. When that note is supplied, the listener experiences a sense of arrival. Unfortunately, this elegant theoretical construction goes largely unrecognized in performance-only the most extraordinary listener will know which notes have been sounded and which remain unheard. However, like the 12-tone system itself, Rosen's theory reveals intentions which, even if inaudible, suffuse the composition like a magical incantation, giving intellectual...