Word: bores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fellini Satyricon, an American journalist named Eileen Lanouette Hughes strives for Rossian statement, and fails quite obviously. Hughes, a Life correspondent, has penned a six-month diary account of the production of Il Maestro's extravagant, phantasmagoric bore. As Fellini claimed, the director did most of the creative work for the project in the scripting stages; thus, the detailed production notes are particularly fruitless, except for those who hunger for glimpses of the Great Man in action. As recounted by Hughes, the sight simply isn't that inspiring...
...rare opportunity to give three orchestral concerts at Carnegie Hall. The kids gave up their Christmas leisure to eat and sleep music. So did Sasha, along with Mischa, Felix, Contralto Maureen Forrester and Violinists Itzhak Perlman and Jaime Laredo. The result was a contrived yet carefree musical happening that bore some resemblance to a classical Woodstock. As a young second violinist put it: "The vibes were good...
...tablets, which bore an early form of the Elamite language, and 84 blank tablets were found on the floor of one room. Large jars for grain storage and cylindrical seals to make impressions in wax were also found...
Harvard's first performance in the tournament bore little resemblance to its final effort. After rolling to a 3-0 lead in the first ten minutes of play, the Crimson cooled off and nearly came down to Yale's sloppy playing style...
...Ross, but the man remains Jason Robards. Once again he plays the crumpled buffoon, out of step with society, delivering loud, whimsical broadsides against such well-riddled targets as the Establishment, traffic and the FBI. His paramour is 25 years his junior, and her attachment for such a droning bore may be ascribed to callowness or to a classic Electra complex. But she is still the dream-child of The Graduate and the only visible excuse for an overblown farce that collapses into bloody and unmotivated tragedy...