Word: brilliante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House last week was whiter than ever, its broad front porch reflecting the brilliant floodlights out into Pennsylvania Avenue: a matron ready to serve her 176th year and shelter the man who will take us into our third century. Across the street, Andrew Jackson bestrode his rearing bronze horse in the center of the pleasant park dedicated to the visionary Frenchman who proved he also could fight: the Marquis de Lafayette. On the fringe of the peaceful scene stood St. John's Church, the small nave once again echoing with the Christmas carols as it has since John...
Body Wig. The tradition of Things Seen has achieved less critical success but even wider popularity. The main themes of the genre were laid down in its first masterpiece, Frankenstein. Written in 1816-17 by Mary Shelley, the 19-year-old wife of the poet, the novel is a brilliant philosophical thriller about the arrogance of science and the revenge of nature. Seventy years later, in 1886, the point of the Frankenstein story was sharpened by Robert Louis Stevenson in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By combining the scientist and the monster in the same personality...
...this Christmas may get a strong sense of it from an exhibition organized at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome to mark the end of the Holy Year. Entitled "Treasures of Sacred Art," it has been culled from normally inaccessible church collections in Rome and nearby Latium. eluded in brilliant array are coffers, crosses, monstrances, ostensoria, chalices, candlesticks, vestments...
...conductor; RCA; $6.98). Its jubilant fire, four-seasons color and unstrained lyric impulse make this the finest cello concerto ever written. The fast-emerging Harrell recalls the heroic eloquence of the late Emanuel Feuermann, and the peripatetic Levine, soon to become music director of the Metropolitan Opera, offers a brilliant reminder that Dvořák wrote the work for orchestra as well as cello...
Deep within this overly ambitious work, however, are some brilliant descriptions of the Durants' central figure...