Word: bohemianized
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...Armani, 43, is a canny tailor who knows precisely what each fabric can do and undo. Though Italians call his style Il Look Inglese-to which stiff upper-collared Englishmen might well object-Armani has managed to steer the national aspiration to la bella figura toward an image of bohemian nonchalance. His bellows-pocketed, unlined suits are sellouts in the U.S. at prices ranging from...
...loose, rambling, amiable film. The first half works particularly well. The second half drags on a bit too long and is broken by some incongruously depressing sequences, but the movie still remains one of the best film portraits of what life was like for the draft-board-baiting bohemian back-packers...
...power. Conductor James Yannatos brought out the talent in the HRO, combining the roles of the individual instruments with the orchestra as a whole. The dreamy forest of Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, the lightness of Saint-Saens's Piano Concerto No. 2 and the Bohemian flavor of Dvorak's Symphony No. 8 in G were all pleasing to the ear and mind. The technical performance of the musicians--particularly Roy Kogan's solo in the Saint-Saens concerto--was also fine. The Dvorak ended the concert with confidence, power and skill...
...orchestra appeared best in Dvorak's Eighth Symphony, the last work of the concert. The Eighth Symphony is in many respects the equal of Dvorak's more celebrated New World Symphony, which he wrote later. It suggests the many faces of Czech culture as Dvorak saw them--pastoral joy, Bohemian calm, and general happiness--all of which are captured in the work. The orchestra handled the transitions between these moods well, and the piece had more coherence and unity than the Debussy or Saint-Saens. In the first movement, the powerful horns and cellos, the cheerful forte, and the recapitulation...
...ALLEGRO FINAL movement sounded particularly stirring. The orchestra played the fanfare and the subdued march of the cellos with full sensitivity, and Yannatos brought out each of the separate instrumental sections as well as the Bohemian flavor with great clarity. The ending, in which the horns lead an exciting theme involving the entire orchestra, revealed the same mastery of dynamics, color and suggestive instrumentation that the orchestra showed throughout the evening and that made the concert especially enjoyable and provocative for the listener...