Word: borings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harold Pinter has not fallen on his face in Old Times, but he has mistaken a dead end for a new road. Even more surprisingly, he has written a play that is a bit of a bore, though the bulk of the reviews have been favorable.* It is a three-character play. Deeley (Robert Shaw) and Kate (Mary Ure) are husband and wife. They await the visit of Anna (Rosemary Harris), Kate's friend and roommate of 20 years before. She appears, and the three begin a cat-and-mouse game with memory...
...composers whose works blend into the amorphous mass of early Italian baroque music. The musical content of three of their sonatas was so slender that all attention was drawn to the majestic sound of the trumpet. Baroque trumpet is a far different instrument from its contemporary counterpart. A narrow bore gives it a piercing sound, and pitch production is based on the natural overtone series, produced solely by lip inflection without the aid of keys. The result is a melodic scale available only in the third octave above fundamental pitch--a very high range. Sheer tonal brilliance readily distracts listeners...
Prime Minister Golda Meir gamely went through two elaborate welcoming ceremonies-the second one for Mobutu, who landed an hour after the other three in a DC-8 whose fuselage bore the freshly painted words Air Zai're to denote that he had changed the name of his country from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Zai're Republic a week earlier. The same name change compelled the Israeli Foreign Ministry to revise all its programs and invitations. All told, it was a trying time for the ministry; when it ordered 400 flags, 100 for each...
...often, children's movies are a chore for parents, a bore for kids. The Railway Children offers so many quiet pleasures, however, that not only will the kids be enchanted but their elders might even want to sneak off and see it on their...
...indeterminate sentence, like other reformers of the period, were men of pronounced prejudices. They prefered Christ to anti-Christ, and for that matter, Christ to Buddha. They found industrial pollution more excusable than prostitution. Most importantly, they prefered Adam Smith to Karl Marx, and believed that ultimately the criminal bore personal guilt for his crimes...