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ROMEO AND JULIET (Caedmon) is a strange romance in this recording. Albert Finney, who can be as forceful as TNT, has conceived a Romeo who sounds like a world-weary anti-hero out of Chekhov. Claire Bloom is girlishly gigglish; yet Shakespeare's Juliet is young only in years, and packs a woman's wiles in a woman's body. The lovers are upstaged by the nurse, Dame Edith Evans, a paragon of timing, inflection and character immersion who could teach Finney and Bloom a thing or three about Shakespearean acting...
...Today, it is London, a city steeped in tradition, seized by change, liberated by affluence, graced by daffodils and anemones, so green with parks and squares that, as the saying goes, you can walk across it on the grass. In a decade dominated by youth, London has burst into bloom. It swings; it is the scene...
FOREIGN RELATIONS A New Bloom...
Miles & Minutes. The tragedies took the bloom off what otherwise would have been a glorious victory for Ford. One by one, the miles and minutes took their toll of Ford's main competitors: the two Chaparrals were both out of the race by the second hour, and the Ferrari 330 P3 retired to the pits on the 172nd lap with a frozen gearbox. Andretti's accident took care of the rest; he was running third behind two Fords at the time of the crash, and the Porsche was in fourth place. The finish was a parade-Ford, Ford...
...opportunity for small studies on the play of light over shrubbery or fields. To them he gave an incredible delicacy." Bonnard grew old joyously contemplating his own garden at Le Cannet above the shores of the Mediterranean, pursuing an ever more jubilant orchestration of clear blue skies and yellow blooms. Pissarro, the first of the impressionists to abandon Paris for the country, remained the most earthy of all. For him no garden or bloom was complete without some sense of the people who cultivated it. Monet laid out his gardens at Giverny as works of art, then used them...