Word: brood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Singer defined talent as "an innate and relentless urge to brood about the eternal questions, a refusal to accept human and animal suffering--so that the artist is never a collectivist, but always unique...
...raised by mothers who loved them--so they had a complete innocence altogether near to arrogance. The trade unionist reared more often than not by a mother who laid the frequent back of her hand on every idiot potato and onion and lemon head of a kid in her brood, could now have the immense anger of seeing his leonine powers lifted by a horde of suburban ants who had never been stepped on, and now could hardly...
...Brynner, the King in both the play and the movie, only adds to the unfortunate sense of dejd vu. The viewer, no doubt like the star himself, keeps expecting his speeches to end in a song. Gorgeous sets, an even more gorgeous Anna (Samantha Eggar) and a brood of cute Oriental brats seem equally out of place in a show that is nothing more than the standard TV saga of the dumb daddy, the smart mamma and the smarter kids who walk over both of them...
...Generations. The musical Brubeck brood ranges in age from Darius, 25, like his father a composer-pianist, to Charles, 11, no mean slouch on cello and piano. It includes Danny, 17, who plays drums in Darius' jazz combo, and Chris, 20, the leader of a rock group known as New Heavenly Blue. (Every family has its black sheep; among the Brubecks there are two: Michael, 23, a horse-trainer, and Sister Catherine, 18, whose ambition is to teach underprivileged children.) When the family gets together to perform, as happened recently at the Westbury Music Fair on Long Island, they...
...truthful bitters, then fading out to make way for another stretch of camp biography. With admirable devotion to accuracy Leonardo's lines are limited to sentiments that actually survive in his notebooks. The result is that French Actor Philippe Leroy, who plays him, has little to do but brood burningly upon the world while lines of primordial exposition clatter about him. (Penny-pinching grandfather: "What's the good of all this schooling? It does not put bread on the table...