Word: flamenco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quality of Seduction. For her, she says, the Spanish musical idiom has "the same quality that our great flamenco dancers have-the sense of excitement held tightly under control. With this comes the quality of seduction, a certain haughtiness, or pride." She has absorbed that idiom thoroughly. Both her mother and aunt studied piano with Granados, and her own teacher, the late Frank Marshall, was a notable Granados disciple. Today, when she is not hopping continents to keep up with her steadily expanding concert schedule, she directs the piano academy that Granados founded in Barcelona. Among the faculty: her aunt...
...object to be photographed from all angles like a fancy be-ribboned package. That fact escapes Robert Parrish, the director. Since he can't quite make Sellers a thing of beauty, he places him in a whirl of chi-chi clothes and Spanish opulence, occasionally adding a flamenco dancer. In case Sellers still sticks out as a funny man, Parrish drowns him in Exodus sound...
...dozen nightclubs and 25 bars, emboldened by a local libation called Aspen Crud, a vanilla milk shake laced with anything alcoholic. Latest place is Stromberg's, in the basement beneath a drugstore, where skiers dine on escargots, fondue and hot posh (cappuccino and rum), stay on for recorded flamenco, folk and jazz. In Vail, dancers head for the Golden Ski or the Casino Vail, where the latest fad is turtle racing. The leading turtles so far are Apollo and the Cuban Stallion, but they had better keep on winning. One sore loser got so mad at his turtle that...
...sign that covered four stories of a skyscraper in downtown Madrid. VOTE SÍ FOR LA PAZ echoed posters on the walls and lampposts of every Spanish town. Spanish movie stars filmed television spots to prove that they wanted to sí as well as be seen, and flamenco dancers hammered out special sí seguidillas with their heels. To be sure that no one missed the message, billboards from Cádiz to Catalonia displayed a silky señorita in an overstuffed sweater, urging motorists to vote...
...Frenzied Flamenco. By the time she was ready for Sound of Music, Julie was showing new attack and authority in her work. She knew when a page of script somehow didn't play right. And she insisted on sound-track retakes when everybody else was satisfied, frequently drove some of the crew members up the wall with frustration over her demands for perfection. Between takes, she was the old Julie, cutting an incongruous figure in her postulant's costume and behaving like an old busker: hammering out a furious Hawaiian War Chant, whistling through her teeth, clacking...