Word: barren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aimed imaginatively toward new, always controversial, often brilliantly successful dramatic ideals. Instead of the heavily literal, violently brassy, pompous stagings admired by Hitler, in which choral scenes often resembled SS rallies in a Black Forest thicket, Wieland created stark, impressionistic stage pictures with a shaft of light here, a barren rock there. To enhance Bayreuth as a cultural force of worldwide significance, Wieland broke with the old chauvinistic policies toward performers and imported singers and conductors of all nationalities. Bayreuth's postwar glory, in fact, rests largely on the shoulders of American singers and conductors: George London, James King...
Perhaps the most significant American contribution to theatrical tradition is the musical, and there is generally at least one outstanding show even in Broadway's barren years. Some good ones, currently touring the strawhat circuit...
...been the inspiration for four blood-and-thunder films. Now Director Tony Richardson is trotting out a fifth version. Unable to shoot at Balaclava, actual site of the 1854 battle in the Crimea (it is now a Russian missile base), he set up his cameras in a suitably barren valley in Turkey, 30 miles from Ankara. There, for the past two months, he has led his all-star cast -David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Trevor Howard, Lawrence Harvey and John Gielgud-through mishap and mayhem. With one of the largest budgets ($5.5 million) ever expended on a British film, Charge promises...
...their emphasis on structural detail. But stunning as were these effects, they seemed to be employed as things-in-themselves rather than as elements in an over-all interpretation. Too much for instance, was made of Beethoven's strategic pauses, which though pregnant with meaning can easily turn barren when pushed out of shape...
Nauruans, however, still have a major worry: since 1900, more than 38 million tons of their atoll have been scooped up and shipped out, leaving only barren, gaping holes. The natives fear that they may soon have little territory left on which to enjoy their wealth. The most probable solution is that filthy rich Nauru will import dirt to replace the phosphates...