Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KNACK is a fantastically droll British bedroom farce played out in an all-but-bare room. If one can imagine three perplexed and, at times, almost pathetic Marx Brothers chasing a plump country girl, with the cry of "Rape!" punctuating the air like "Tallyho!", one gets a glimmer of Playwright Ann Jellicoe's comic instincts...
Barry had every cause for confidence. Every tried and tested political factor weighs heavily against Scranton's being able to pick up enough delegates to win in San Francisco. Indeed, his move required a degree of bravado: rarely before has a major U.S. presidential candidate stood up a bare four weeks before a nominating convention and insisted that in that short time he could prove to the U.S. that he should be in the White House...
...modern Barcelona, the feud of two passionate gypsy clans, the Tarantos and the Zorongos, provides a turbulent prologue to the first meeting of young Rafael and Juana at a wedding feast. Dark eyes burn, hands slap out flamenco rhythm, bare feet pound the golden dust: thus Director Rovira-Beleta wordlessly launches a tale of love at first sight with an excitement that Shakespeare himself might envy. Later he tries too many tricky variations on the familiar story line, occasionally becoming somewhat incoherent, but his feel for Spanish gypsy folkways never falters. The tragedy mounts while men, women and children dance...
Rilke was a solitary who spent, according to his French master, Paul Valery, "eternal winters long in excessive intimacy with silence." Such a man does not leave the makings of a lively biography. But out of his elected silence Rilke drew such lyrics that men have searched the bare facts of his life for the sources of his mastery...
Inner Space. The facts are bare indeed. Born in Prague 88 years ago, he died of leukemia in Switzerland in 1926; the events in between are almost ac counted for by the names of the countries he visited or lived in (Germany, France, Russia, Spain, Italy) and the handful of friends he made-the most important of them women. These ladies included the Princess of Thurn and Taxis and the fabulous Lou AndreasSalome, who was his elder by 14 years and who deeply impressed-besides the poet-Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud. His love for Lou Andreas was a lifelong...