Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have already been heard," indignantly rejected an offer of $14,000 a year to conduct at the Capitol Theater in New York. "What do you think I am," asked Varèse -"a whore?" After turning out such ear-wrenching but nonelectronic works as Arcana and Ameriques, he fell silent for 18 years while he speculated on the musical possibilities of electronic noise. In 1953 he began putting on tape the sounds that he was hearing in his head...
...deck of the carrier, 1,200 crewmen who roared their cheers when they heard that Shepard was on his way, waited in silent expectation as he made his lonely flight. From time to time an announcer reported his progress; then Shepard's voice itself came over the loudspeaker. It was not clear. He was descending, and the Gs of re-entry were pressing him hard. Every man on the deck scanned the sky. When Freedom 7's big orange-and-white parachute popped open at 10,000 ft., the Lake Champlain came alive with cheers once more. "Damn...
...magic that contains both the object and the subject, the world outside the artist and the artist himself." But Balthus was also entranced by the surrealists' probings into the unconscious. He painted streets, landscapes and people, all arranged in a well-thought-out design, all strangely still and silent, all a little unnerving in mood...
Died. Anita Stewart, 65, Brooklyn-born star of such silent films as The Goddess, a redhaired, brown-eyed beauty who never lost her looks, yet once dismissed sex appeal with the comment: "Oomph! How I hate that word!"; apparently of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
Days of Thrills and Laughter. Comedy and heroics, silent and violent, with Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks...