Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Battle's range spans two and a half octaves, from a low A to a high E. Her voice has a color and flexibility that allow her to go beyond soubrette roles to encompass the death-defying coloratura declamations of Handel's Semele, or dramatically richer lyric parts like Melisande in Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande, which she is now studying. That radiant sound emerges from a 5-ft. 3-in., 120-lb. frame like Athena leaving the head of Zeus: pure and full blown, and shimmering like celestial chimes. "Her voice is remarkably beautiful," says Met Music Director James...
...daughter live today. In the final chapters she celebrates the statesman and martyr she knows better in death than in life. Yet it is as a man that her father remains most appealing, spending his Nobel Peace Prize money to benefit his birthplace ("The villagers even had color TV before I did in Cairo") and promoting culture. "You made me cry the other day when I saw your film," Sadat informs an actor. "You must do that again...
Though lacking accurate local color, Texas leaves a lot to be desired. But as a novel it is above average. Read as pure novel, Texas is not bad entertainment, even if it is long. The reading goes quickly, and even if the outlook it produces is skewed, it does give non-Texans a thorough exposure to a remarkable, offbeat place and its equally remarkable and offbeat people. Anyone who can remember one tenth of the details will be a walking encyclopedia of things Texan from the number of types of cactus in Big Ben National Park to the unlikely origin...
...calls "sardonic distance," that is absent in most men who write on similar subjects. Through this self-analysis, Baldwin rids himself the slavish mentality of ressentiment which hinders the judgement of Black separatists and turns them into unknowing racists. Baldwin is one of the the few writers of any color who is free of racism. When he writes that, "Unless one supposes that the idea of black supremacy has virtues denied to the idea of white supremacy, one cannot possibly accept the deadly conclusions a Muslim draws," Baldwin is beginning to formulate the ideal of one humanity composed of many...
...eight million have lost their homes. Four million refugees languish near starvation in Pakistan, perhaps two million in Iran, and another million or so on the outskirts of the capital, Kabul. Actual footage of battles and decimated villages brought the story to life, morbidly speaking, in brilliant color...