Word: delights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...establishment's new enthusiasm with a doubting, puzzled Wha? Many of them have been working as rhythm-and-blues singers, and now they can be in the new groove merely by singing the remembered songs of their childhood choir-loft days. But even with all the corporate delight at the new groove's financial prospects, the cheerful, sensate piety of the music had already begun to sound like its own requiem by the end of the first week of official enthusiasm. Gospel music is the last remaining unpackaged expression of Negro culture; now that it is being merchandised...
...wild climax, she stood among her abandoned robes dressed only in a St. Tropez bikini. Later, moving in an almost ritualistic trance, she slithered to the floorboards to plant a 60-second kiss on the lips of the apostle's severed head, thus achieving a moment of nightmare delight that brought a horrified gasp from the packed house. The East Berlin press was justly enthusiastic about Friedrich's production and Rudolfova's performance, but the sticky thing was to explain what all this decadence had to do with art in a Workers' and Peasants' Paradise...
...Mock-Hero Harpagon (Hume Cronyn) is dead to his children's hope of love, dead to his servants' grievances, dead to any generous stirrings of heart or mind. He counts the world well lost for money. Skittering about like a drunken sandpiper, Hume Cronyn is a dizzy delight. His Harpagon is a sprite of the cashbox, an imp of interest rates, a tooth-clacking, raggedy-cloaked, stringy-haired, sciatica-plagued witch of usury. As a syrup-tongued matchmaker, Zoe Caldwell steals laughs from Cronyn, and is the yeasty comic find of the company. Obviously, the Guthrie troupe...
Peter Falk is the one delight in the cast. He has a strong career ahead as "the man you love to hate." Miss Winters is atrociously miscast as a madam, and the motley assortment of psychotics, prostitutes and morons that round out the acting credits will go better unmentioned...
...appetizer exhibitions now on view in Paris and Bordeaux, the new study of Delacroix just published by Hachette. Burchfield has an enormously appealing talent that will not influence the course of art one bit; Delacroix was a genius, the leader of the romantics. One charms, the other hypnotizes; both delight-and each generates that special kind of excitement that an artist can cast and no one else...