Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unanswered Question, and with help from a translator gave a brief talk before leading his musicians through the intricate, dissonant piece. The effect was electric. So great was the applause that Bernstein played it again. He gave a second chat before playing Stravinsky's Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, and still a third for the composer's Le Sacre du Printemps, explaining that it touched off a "musical revolution five years before your own revolution-music has never been the same since." Each time the audience cheered its approval, and later, at a birthday party given...
Among the best of Japan's new print-makers is Tadashi Nakayama, 33, who switched from oils to woodprints only two years ago. Characteristically, he minimizes the realism of his dream-tossed horses (see color): "My real interest is not so much in horses as in the wind. I am fascinated by the way the wind can change the form of things-a flower, the hair of a girl, the mane of a horse...
From his sleeping bag Phillip Bennett, 16, looked up and saw the top of the mountain "cascading down on us." As his parents tumbled from the trailer, a great wind rushed through the canyon, lifting the children, sleeping bags and all, into the air. Irene Bennett saw her husband grab one of the children, hold on to a sapling with his other hand and straighten "like a flag on a flagpole." Then, as he let go, the mountain crashed down around them in an avalanche of rocks, shattered trees and earth. Next day only Irene Bennett and Phillip were found...
...while, producers managed to keep her ignorant of her growing popularity. "They were afraid I would ask for more money," she explains. Eventually Lata caught on. By 1949 her movies were all over the country, and her songs were played everywhere, including remote rural areas where villagers clustered around wind-up gramophones listening to Lata until all that could be heard from the records was an eerie scratch...
...Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). For steadfast summer viewers willing to suffer reruns, Nightmare at Ground Zero will make harrowing fare for a hot evening. Scientists at a 1954 A-bomb test are trapped by their own talents when the weather changes and an unexpected wind rains radioactive dust on their bunker...