Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vocal lightweight. Not satisfied with the lyric repertoire, he wants to conquer the dramatic roles; Manrico, Radames, Canio. He could make no greater mistake. Nothing destroys a lyric tenor more quickly or completely than straining to sing those dramatic works to which his voice is not suited; the color darkens, the voice loses its beauty and unwieldly wobbles ensue. One hopes that from here on in Mr. Pavarotti will not stray too far from his proper domain and will leave the dramatic repertoire to those who can handle...
...were simply out of their performing range. And some past greats, like Martinelli and Pertile not only lacked good high notes but lacked beautiful voices altogether. They made their reputations on vocal excitement and elegance of interpretation. Today most tenors sing with plodding monotony; no variety of color, no subtlety of phrasing, no dramatic imagination. Mr. Pavarotti uses his voice with a bit more fashion than most of his contemporaries, but his singing is still a far cry from Gigli, Martinelli, or Schipa. What the operatic world needs today is a few more tenors with the keen interpretive sense...
...Father Mouret. This Franju film begins like a color version of Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest. A fragile, handsome young priest just out of seminary has taken on the parish of a provincial town full of peasant atheists. He wants to believe that by the strength of his fervent faith alone he will convert even the most cynical, irreverent non-believers. His fasting, like that of the priest in Bresson's film, makes him weaker and weaker; but instead of succumbing to tuberculosis, he develops amnesia. There the parallels end. The rest of the movie carries him through...
...entire process of Vietnamization was a lie. It was not an attempt to wind down the war--as we have seen, its ferocity increased. Rather, as Elsworth Bunker has stated, it was a policy aimed at "chaning the color of the corpses." It was not the deaths that concerned Kissinger, but rather the death of Americans and the division it created in America. By substituting dead Vietnamese for dead Americans, he hoped to be able to continue the war with political impunity. Such racism must be condemned...
...audience that the company is not trying to develop an instant-movie system. Instead, it is concentrating on other goals, including trying to eliminate the flashbulb in still photography by making a whole new series of amateur cameras to use high-speed film. In March Kodak introduced a fast color film with an ASA rating of 400, but so far it can be used only in complex cameras, not most of Kodak's Instamatics...