Word: bachian
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Roman Candles. At 31, Newman has emerged as high priest of the harpsichord, a turtlenecked Bachian missionary not seen since the days of the late Wanda Landowska and Albert Schweitzer. Like Landowska, he plays with enormous verve and intense rhythm, sprinkling musical embellishments like roman candles being tossed from an express train. This startles those who learned their Bach straight, but Newman conquers the doubters with sheer personal conviction. There is something reminiscent of Schweitzer in the way Newman's intellectual and religious philosophy, Zen, permeates his music making and mesmerizes his youthful audiences. Even on the shrill organ...
...reply, Bach says that follow-up studies of the couples he has "fight-trained" show 85% of them "living much more satisfying (if perhaps noisier) lives than before." Some 200 other therapists have come to watch and learn what they can from the Bachian brouhaha approach to honest marriage. Eventually, Bach asks buoyantly, why not teach fight training on television...
...symmetry, the inevitable Tightness in every part. You have an art of your own. I left a reading of every word with a sense of completeness; the Bach violin partitas began sounding through my mind as I got up. You caught the heart of the Bachian Restoration in a magnificent end-of-year cadenza. What is better for space travel than the accompaniment of Bach? Long live Bach...
...cave"; it is cluttered with books, 3,000 recordings, hi-fi equipment, and huge pop posters of Frankenstein and the Beatles. He has lately developed a passion for the "rugged primitivism" of rock 'n' roll, recently turned up at an avant-garde concert to play his Bachian treatment of the Beatles' song Yesterday. Attired in the accepted uniform of Hans Brinker cap and rumpled corduroy jacket, he goes to Greenwich Village to hear shockrock, stays up half the night in the coffeehouses discussing philosophy and the merits of LSD. "The only reason...
...square-mile piece of the balloon, running roughly from 43rd Street to 77th Street, collapsed, and for 4½ mad hours, Reddy Kilowatt was blacked out. Seated at a great church organ, the organist laid ten fingers down on a blasting Bachian chord-and lost it. At Vic Tanny's, dozens of reducers stared in blubbery relief as the complicated electrical contraptions halted their pummeling. At the Paramount Theater, where the projectors run on DC current but the sound on AC, Elvis Presley was silenced at last...