Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broad-faced driver has never before been a headliner: the low-slung car is operated on a shoestring. But Australian-born Jack Brabham and his Cooper-Climax are challenging-and beating-the world's biggest names this season in the exacting sport of Grand Prix road racing, the ultimate competition for lean speed machines that can chafe off rubber in skidding turns, accelerate to 190 m.p.h. on the straightaways...
...over-protective care. When Rudolpho, who enjoys singing, sewing, and cooking, as well as working on the piers, is accused by Eddie of being a homosexual seeking to marry only for his citizenship papers, the tensions, conflicts, and jealousies begin to mount until they work themselves to their fateful climax. Towards the end of the play, it is said of Eddie that he is pure--not purely good, but at a time when men must settle for half, he allows himself to be wholly known. It is to Mr. Lurtsema's credit that he has captured the nobility of Eddie...
Marilyn Rawlins gave the first night's most finished performance in the pivotal role of Rosa; she needs only a bit more "weight" and presence to fore-shadow the grandeur of her deed at the climax. Why anyone saw fit to dye Miss Rawlin's honest red hair to black, however, as well as fitting her out in a costume and coiffure that belong to the Vassar cocktail hour rather than an innocent Italian peasant girl--is quite beyond me; one hopes that it will be soon corrected...
Prokofiev's music, written in the early '205, is taut, economical and superbly dramatic, consisting of almost continuous recitative, punctuated with an occasional soaring aria. The opera reaches its vocal and dramatic climax in the Inquisition scene, in which Renata. a group of nuns and the Inquisitor weave eleven different vocal lines into a complicated polyphony, terminated by a staggering explosion of brass and cymbals...
...With Stirling Moss coming up fast, Australia's Jack Brabham gambled that his worn tires would hold, passed up a pit stop and flashed home by just 22.2 sec. in his Cooper Climax to win the 225-mile British Grand Prix at Aintree. The victory (average speed: 89.88 m.p.h.) gave Brabham eight points to widen his lead for the world driving championship...