Word: breathlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emerged as a fast, furious and frolicsome western. The lights go down; we hear a habanera; someone dashes down the aisle from the rear of the audience, leaps on stage and fires a rifle. From then on to the end we are swept up in the production's riotously breathless pace. Other characters race down the aisle, in and out of the wings, up and down stairs, and along the balcony. People pop in and out of doors, pistols fire, and all that's missing is "Hiyo, Silver...
...more difficult to defend than Communism, the President patiently explained: "Look, Mr. Reston, I think you could run into people you have a hard time convincing that the sun is hot and the earth is round . . . Against that kind of belief you run against arguments that almost leave you breathless. You don't know how to meet them...
...smirk when they pick up the memoirs of a posh erstwhile pink like Philip Toynbee (son of A Study of History'> Arnold J.) and read:"It was there, at Castle Howard, that I fell in love with Laura Bonham-Carter; and what I best remember about the first breathless evening is a dinner in the Canaletto room...
Clothes & Shoes. But the breathless sense of urgency and the inward knowledge that in undermanned, underfed, underdeveloped Middle Africa today each needs the other has infected all races. Each jealously watchful of its own fancied prerogatives, the multicolored people of Africa are learning, often faster than they want to, how to live and work together. Those who proclaim that the white man's day is done, and are convinced that the African is ready to take over without help, speak too quickly. Without British aid and guidance, Ghana's ambitious Twi Tribesman Nkrumah could never have founded...
...first aria, the prefect sings over and over again: "Clean shirts, clean nightcaps, Latin mottoes over the beds"). Egk also allows the singers to sing their essential recitatives against the support merely of a sustained bass. The result is an opera that moves with beery gusto and at a breathless, never confused pace...