Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comic scenes center around Josie-the-slattern's rascally old Irish father, who is played by Arthur Malet with a nicely integrated and polished collection of mannerisms indicating rascality and eld. It would be a brilliant performance, except that it is a bit too carefully styled and a bit too lovable to be thoroughly at home in O'Neill's harshly realistic play. Moreover--unaccountably, in view of his obvious skills--Mr. Malet is not very funny...
...ranging from the Early Iron Age to archaic (Sixth Century B.C.). The room, apparently a potter's shop, was a remnant of the fabled city of Sardis, the fied the vases and sherds as Lydian, from uncovered some of the town walls of Sardis dating from Lydian days. A bit of Croesus' metropolis was once more brought to light...
...best of atypical Chagall is offered here. The three large canvases of his early maturity depict in a touching manner emotional situations of complexity. Though Chagall's technique some times seems a bit shaky, the pictures, Burning House, Birthday and The Soldier Drinks, all seem to derive from the artists's own experiences in Russia and Paris. Burning House, full of a peasant bulkiness, is especially gripping with its vivid coloring and engrossing catastrophe. Birthday, painted with glowing Iyricism, describes a some how convincing act of leviation, by which a husband floats over to kiss his wife...
...Harbison and the orchestra appeared to be most at their ease in the lively outer movements, where their energy and exuberance made an especially happy effect; the Andante seemed a bit pallid. But in the Allegro and the concluding "La Tempesta" (Haydn's cloudburst is Austrian naivete and gentility compared with Vivaldi's) they produced a sound richer and larger than the orchestra's numbers suggest. An even bigger sound could be heard in the substantial D minor piano concerto of Bach, in which the sonority of the opening unison belied the fact that the forces involved really amounted...
...Numbers. By Western standards, Soviet weddings are not really weddings at all, but a bit of bureaucratic business that young couples must go through at the local bureau of ZAGS, where births, deaths and marriages alike are registered. The couple can turn up in ordinary work clothes, get through the whole ceremony during an everyday lunch hour. "Will you keep your own name or take your husband's?" an official asks the bride, reminding her that if she takes her husband's, she must get a new internal passport within ten days. After that, the couple...