Word: serialism
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...says. "A cupboard. Anything. God, it was awful, moving around with my little mat." She worked at odd, wearying places in the summer, such as a Schweppes factory ("Ugh"), where she grew to hate the taste of bitter lemon. Then BBC-TV picked her up for a science fiction serial called A Is for Andromeda. Movies have weaned her away from television. Her first two were unnoteworthy, but now, with Billy Liar, which last week seemed most likely to win the top award at the current Venice Film Festival, she is established as a film star...
...content to develop its talent for staging the eruption of Vesuvius in a studio closet, has rarely ventured far afield. Next season, viewers will see a brave pioneer bust out of the closet onto the Còte d'Azur and points north. The pioneer: a hammy comedy serial about an American nightclub act in Europe titled Harry's Girls (NBC), which is filming 13 of its 26 half-hour shows on the French Riviera...
...name fiction and big-deal nonfiction. He seems convinced that what Playboy really needs is more sex, not less. "If the secret psyche of the typical young male adult could be probed," wrote Hefner in an apparently endless editorial on "The Playboy Philosophy" that has already been running in serial form for eight months, "we suspect that we probably err in the direction of less emphasis on sex than the average, rather than more...
...moments when O'Hara seems to be saying you can get the girl out of the Social Register, but you cannot get the Social Register out of the girl. And there are times, in capsule form at least, when Elizabeth's odyssey sounds like a radio serial that has lost its snap and crackle. But in the telling, it frequently pops with O'Hara's unequaled expertise as a domestic historian. Tuning in on a bridge game or a couple chatting over the supper dishes, watching a college president pushing responsibility for a nasty school scandal...
Boulez deplored the use of scientific language in music by those not thoroughly trained in both science and music. For example, numerical description of the permutations of notes in serial music is "sophism and mania, related more to despair than to science"; such an approach raises the spectre of the medieval fanatics of the Golden Number...