Word: brillantes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Osborne's greatest distinction is his ability to write long, furious, bitterly hilarious monologues, using common speech in a new and corrosively expressive manner. In Nigel Kneale's screenplay, with "additional dialogue" by Mr. Osborne, the brillant, obscene rhapsodies that lit up the play have been ruthlessly cropped, in an attempt to meet the demands of what is always said to be a "visual medium," and nothing can compensate for this loss...
...Harvard Stadium to stage its most magnificient spectacle, Agamemnon by Aeschylus. Under a light drizzle, a large audience gathered at the far end of the horseshoe to watch the Greek tragedy produced as it originally was. The setting was complete with horses and chariots, nothing less than a "brillant pageant, typical of the heroic days of ancient Greece," as the Herald enthusiastically said...
Capriccio Brillant (by George Balanchine; music by Mendelssohn) is an elegant bit of fluff designed mainly for Balanchine's top dancers, Maria Tallchief and André Eglevsky, who present a brisk, polished "improvisation" on the music...