Word: brio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Like Randall Thompson's mellifluous Symphony No. 2 (Leonard Bern stein; Columbia), this eloquently traditional 28-year-old work has survived the original scorn of avant-gardists who should have been hung by their own dog mas. Proud of theme, opulent of chord, it is performed with missionary brio by Michael Tilson Thomas and the Bos ton Symphony...
...lament: "How ill white hairs become a fool." In the midst of unabashed gaiety, Fellini ushers in bitterness: an Italian lion tamer who trains his beasts in German because "it is the only human language that they understand." The film's zenith is a funeral staged con brio-the spectacular obsequies of a clown, his hearse drawn by men in horse suits, his widow a clown with pendulous breasts, the orator a grotesque who maligns the deceased (suffocated by an ostrich egg at the tender age of 200) as vile and worthless...
Dick himself comes across with all the brio one could ask for, thanks to David Selby. He is properly imprudent, a maelstrom of activity; and he is young and indecently handsome, as befits the romantic hero of a melodrama. Shaw has carefully built up suspense for Dick's first entrance, Heis talked about at some length; and the Dudgeon family, all dressed in black mourning outfits, are waiting for the conventional reading-of-the-will episode. Dick finally bounds in irreverently, wearing light blue and brown-the embodiment of defiance...