Word: spaniards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film, commissioned by Manhattan's Mannes College of Music and made by Art-Film Producer Robert Snyder (The Titan), attempts to summarize in 28 minutes a day in the life of the 80-year-old Spaniard who is regarded by many musicians as the greatest cellist of all time. The camera briefly inspects the little town of Prades in the French Pyrenees, where Casals, until his recent move to Puerto Rico, made his home, calls at the gatehouse he lived in, watches the master give a lesson ("Don't think too much, just feel it"), and then settles...
...around his easel, lit by a powerful electric lamp with triple reflectors, where he paints every day from 4 p.m. until after midnight with an old boxboard for a palette, sometimes knocking off two or three versions of a subject in a single session. Explains Picasso : "I am a Spaniard. Just as a torero takes his bull through all sorts of passes, I like to take my pictures through all kinds of variations...
...Spaniard. In this close, inner world of high fashion, Dior is sometimes deprecated as "the General Motors of Fashion." For the few women who can wear his severely elegant suits and dresses, the designer's designer is a handsome Spaniard named Cristobal Balenciaga. His admirers speak of him as of a dark, mysterious priest in an inner shrine. Said one elegant Parisienne: "Dior is a great publicist, a kind of Barnum of fashion. He has superb workrooms, everything is beautifully and interestingly done. But the only real designer is Balenciaga." Son of a Spanish boat captain, 61-year...
Dream Landscape. "His mission was religious and military," says Author Descola, and makes clear that at the time no Spaniard saw a contradiction in this. Cortés formed his expeditionary fleet in Santiago de Cuba, and his flag bore the device: "Brothers and comrades, let us follow the Cross, and if we have true faith in this symbol, we will conquer." The facts will always remain astonishing-how Cortés scuttled his ten ships (not "burned behind him," but dismantled and sunk, despite legend and the Encyclopaedia Britannica) and with his Aztec mistress, 400 Spaniards, 15 horses...
...newly arrived resident of Puerto Rico, famed Cellist Pablo Casals, turned 80, looked and talked closer to 40. Spaniard Casals, for the past 17 years a self-exiled dweller in France, explained why he will go on declining invitations to visit the U.S.: "I have a great affection for the U.S., but as a refugee from Franco Spain, I cannot condone America's support of a dictator who sided with America's enemies, Hitler and Mussolini. Franco's power would surely collapse today without American help." The secret of Casals' youthfulness? "The man who works...