Word: granadas
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Born in Linares, a village in southern Spain, young Andres briefly studied the violin. But his teacher was a harsh martinet, and Segovia was unmoved by the sound of the instrument. "The violinists and cellists I heard in the Granada of that time seemed to extract catlike wails from the violin and asthmatic gasps from the cello," he wrote in Segovia, his 1976 memoir. "But even in the hands of common people, the guitar retained that beautiful plaintive and poetic sound...
...initiators of the series, Britain's Granada Television, approached the adaptation of Jewel with a method that seemed like madness. Half of the episodes were directed by Television Veteran Christopher Morahan, 55 (Uncle Vanya, Old Times), the other half by Jim O'Brien, 37, who has directed a number of documentaries and theatrical productions. In addition, the film makers decided to brave four months' shooting on location in India, an adventure that involved wrangling 300 containers of equipment past vigilant customs officers, recruiting local beggars to act as extras and running up a tab of $7 million...
...what was all encompassing on the page would have been all confusing on the screen. To the rescue came two other former soldiers from the raj, Scriptwriter Ken Taylor and Sir Denis Forman, the chairman of Granada and the project's prime mover. Their no-nonsense solution was to chop up yard-length segments of wallpaper, pin them on the walls of a large room and sort out a chronological story line by writing an outline of events on each square. In the process, they preserved nearly all the equivocal situations and ragged-edged characters that are often more...
...Granada Hills, Calif...
...against American intervention in Grenada... Grenada... "I did not I think that it is conduct unbecoming to a member of the faculty to organize and lead student demonstrations, and I have never done such a thing. I do not know who organized the demonstration against the U.S. invasion of Granada. I was invited by students from the Law School to be one of the speakers at the demonstration, and I did speak. That...