Word: broodingness
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Ringo, a thoroughly unpretentious fellow, is also the most innately comic temperament; he is the catalyst, and also the deflator, of the crew. Most mysterious of all-and possibly most important-is John, the creative mainspring, who has lately grown strangely brooding and withdrawn; he is more thoughtful and tough...
Philately may seem a gentle avocation, but Postmaster General Larry O'Brien knows better. After he approved a 5? stamp to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Henry David Thoreau's birth, furious collectors complained that the Post Office Department was making the Walden Ponderer look like a thug...
Inexplicable Union. In this, her sixth novel, she deals with the France of the early 1960s, when De Gaulle was extricating his nation from the Algerian war and rabid rightists were murdering Arabs and detonating plastic bombs throughout France. Her protagonist, Nicolas Léclusier, is a great bearlike, brooding...
When the curtain rose on Mozart's Don Giovanni at Spoleto, Italy, last week, the traditional 17th century Spanish capes and courtyards were missing. Instead, singers in vaguely funereal costume drifted through bare spaces that seemed to recede into infinities of aquamarine. Massive bands of grey rock jutted around...
Mahler's own musical resurrection is all the more impressive in view of the practical and esthetic difficulties that bristle throughout his work. Most of his symphonies are so long that they take up an entire concert, often require more than 100 instrumentalists and at least that many singers...