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Agee, James On Film: Reviews and Comments. (Beacon...
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Both species are beetles whose larvae live in damp places and feed on snails. The adult females cannot fly. When they reach maturity, they wait patiently for dusk, then climb to a high spot and turn on their seductive light. Males flying overhead spot the beacon and drop down to pay court...
...podium he is athletic but correct. His baton sweeps in wide, generous arcs and his left hand constantly beckons music from the air. His body dips and sways like a dancer's, and his classic profile flashes now right, now left, like a lighthouse beacon. He has a nearly perfect ear for balancing orchestra and singers, and the Met chorus never sounds better than it does with Schippers conducting. Though emotion sometimes drives him into hurried tempi, he has a strong sense of opera that keeps his music in sympathetic concert with the libretto-which he soundlessly sings through...
...fires longtime employees to save money. He uses the stock market as a bellwether for the chain he helped found, spending and expanding when it rises and retrenching when it falls. A knowledgeable antique collector, a frenetic photographer and an amateur radio buff, he has brought frowns to some Beacon Hill brows by installing a shiny antenna atop his home on Boston's venerable Louisburg Square...