Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...background,I can understand that. Don't forget that in Portugal we emerged from a fascist regime that lasted half a century, and we have just put an end to colonial wars that lasted 14 years. We cannot pass from that situation to a pure democratic system, British-style. Britain has had four centuries of parliamentarianism...
...exhibit of photographs by the royal family's famous inlaw. While Snowdon shuttled between interviews and autograph sessions, store officials hawked his book Assignments at $12.50 per copy. "They're just photographs that reflect or record moments in life," said Snowdon. "If there is a recognizable style, then that's my failing." How had fame from his professional success and marriage to Princess Margaret affected his work? "If your face becomes familiar, it makes it harder to work in an anonymous kind of way," he answered. "I've got a totally anonymous face that happens...
...salsa is a new musical adventure for most Latinos as well as for Americans. Its roots extend back to Cuban dance music of previous decades like the rumba. After 1961, when the U.S. suspended relations with Cuba, emigrant Latin musicians and mainland-born Puerto Ricans gradually fused their own style with elements of American rock, soul and especially jazz. The result was salsa's singing dances. They are a combination of pungent vocal melodies challenged by complex instrumental counterrhythms...
Since no single aspect of Glenda Jackson's performance is unflawed, there is a wealth of errors to choose from. Hedda is a fastidious aristocrat and the proud daughter of a general. Jackson endows her with all the grace, style and elegance of Eliza Doolittle hawking flowers in Covent Garden. Hedda is broodingly neurotic and desperately bored. Jackson seems to be suffering no more than a fuzzy hangover...
...James's without seeming to be an absolute plonk in the headwaiter's eye will appreciate Wayne's problem -and perhaps look forward to seeing an exasperated Duke put an end to all that social fiddle by busting a few heads in true American democratic style...