Word: serializations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...century atonality, which both moved toward giving an equal significance to each of the twelve tones. It is a method which has dominated the musical life of this century, eventually exercising a hold even on Igor Stravinsky, the man who had once seemed the great opponent of this serial technique...
...apartment at 625 Morse Street where Patty and Yoshimura were captured, the FBI discovered a single greenback-denomination undisclosed-that was stolen from the bank in Carmichael. It was a "bait bill"-a piece of currency, whose serial number has been previously recorded, that bank tellers often surrender to stickup men in the hope that the loot may be traced...
...anyone wished to stage a cliff-hanging serial to dramatize the squeeze that inflation and recession have clamped on most U.S. cities and even some states, he could hardly have come up with anything more pointed than the fiscal agonies of New York City (TIME, May 26). New York's woes, to be sure, are vastly worse than those of almost any other local government: no other municipality faces a threat of being unable to meet its payroll or pay off creditors. But the difference is one of degree, not of kind; other states and cities are also trying...
...inlaid pavement of a piazza. The drops, filming the surface with water splashes, broke up the stone pattern, returning it briefly to chaos and instability. Could this breakup not be given an equivalent as painting? It could; and that sense of disturbed equilibrium within what looks like a rigid serial structure was to be the essential "subject" of Riley's work from then...
...according to Jacobsen, Connally grew anxious that some of the bills had been circulated after 1971. Connally gave him yet another $10,000 on Nov. 25, 1973, Jacobsen told the court, to replace the first bun dle, but FBI agents discovered that it contained 16 bills with serial numbers that had not been in circulation in 1971. That disclosure caused Jacobsen to make a deal with prosecutors and agree to testify against Connally...