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Word: beautyful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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An unsentimental romanticist, Solti works easily within the huge design of the Eroica. He treats the long first movement almost as an extended phrase. If he lacks something of the rhythmic intensity of Toscanini, Solti nevertheless fuses the conflicting elements of the symphony into a coherent whole with no sacrifice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pick of the Pack | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

Much more often, however, Stanley Kubrick is armored in the serene belief that whatever judgment the public passes on his new movie when it opens next week, he has fulfilled the director's basic ideal, which is to shoot "economically and with as much beauty and gracefulness as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KUBRICK'S GRANDEST GAMBLE | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

Take the sleuths on the case. Sergeant De Grier and Adjutant Grijpstra cannot claim the instinct for violence or the deductive brilliance that makes for popular detectives. But the two plainclothesmen on the Amsterdam police force are far from plain. As they doggedly pursue their "eternal search" for "who knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

Iolanthe is as good as this Henry IV was bad, and a reviewer need not be in his dotage to rave about it. Increasingly, Iolanthe seems to be the favorite work of most Gilbert & Sullivan fanciers. Those who like the gentle, submarine beauty of Sullivan's music claim the best...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: G & S Without Peers | 12/11/1975 | See Source »

Perhaps the most moving story--and the most delightful--is the first one, "A Jew of Persia," where the folktale situation of a woodsman's encounter with the Devil is firmly set into twentieth-century Israel. When the situation is reversed and he is writing about everyday America, Helprin often...

Author: By Holly Gorman, | Title: Slow Beauty and No Talk | 12/9/1975 | See Source »

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