Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...orchestra, elemental in its power, yet seductive in its radiant beauty. The title derives from Sanskrit and roughly connotes "vitality" and "life," and thus gives some indication of both the piece's formidable substance and its stunning effect. Its thundering chord progressions and leaping, birdlike themes, its mixture of brutal dissonance and sunny consonance, make Turangalila-Symphonie one of the French composer's finest creations. It is difficult for both performer and listener, which may be why it is rarely played in concert. It does, however, offer a splendid workout for a CD player. Finnish Conductor Salonen, 28, leads...
Donald Westlake wrote the screenplay for this effectively suspenseful and brutal twist of America's suburban search for T.V. family bliss. No familial unit ever had it as good or as saccharine smooth as the Brady Bunch, but the Stepfather, leaving a trail of bodies and abandoned identities behind him, is set on making media myth a reality...
...portraying men as brutal and oppressive...
RECENT STUDIES have made evident the increasingly brutal tendencies of at least one segment of the German population. A government-sponsored study showed that 13 percent of Germans over the age of 18 consider themselves extreme right-wingers. That population, according to the survey, believes that the majority of journalists should be put in jail and considers foreign workers to be a mortal threat to the German nation. Even more disturbing, the survey found that the majority of the group yearns for a leader who could unify the nation as effectively as did Adolf Hitler...
...fairly standard day in the death of the House of Atreus. The real pleasures of the production were the whiplash performance of Soprano Hildegard Behrens in the title role and the gloriously haunted Klytemnestra of Mezzo Christa Ludwig. Conductor Seiji Ozawa, leading his first Elektra, sought out the brutal score's elusive lyric elements and found most of them...