Word: beautyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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But if one of these experts had spent his life on a desert island, unconditioned by any knowledge of modern art-or, to be fair, by any knowledge of traditional great masters either-and suddenly came back to normal society as a reasonably intelligent man with a well-developed appreciation...
The Actor as Object. Similarly, the actor in a film is an object. The camera is impersonal, but not magnanimous: it makes the actor part of the scenery. Onstage, the actor is at the incandescent center of the action. He incarnates the flame of truth and beauty invested in him...
Today the Sutherland voice towers like a natural wonder, unique as Niagara or Mount Everest. Sills' voice is made of more ordinary stuff; what she shares with Callas is an abandon in hurling herself into fiery emotional music and a willingness to sacrifice vocal beauty for dramatic effect. Sutherland...
In slow, legato music, Sills has a superior sense of rhythm and clean attack to keep things moving; Sutherland's more flaccid beat and her style of gliding from note to note often turn song into somnolence. Sills' diction in English, French and Italian is superb; Sutherland'...
Vampire Bat. Ozzie, played with translucent poignancy by Tom Aldredge, is tortured by lost youth, lost potency, lost possibilities. He cries out for a past when he wore no straitjacket: "I was nobody's goddam father. I was nobody's goddam husband, and I could run-nobody could...