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...complicated ornaments) were leaped smoothly, and the occasional moments of romantic treacle were turned into pure honey. Cascades of notes ar ranged themselves in perfect, multicolored symmetry. The fortissimo climaxes arrived like evening thunder. Nobody else can hit a piano that hard and produce something more than an ugly din...
Morning at a West Coast high school. The first-period bell rings, barely audible above the classroom din. "O.K., everybody, settle down," says the soft-spoken teacher of the course called Modern Problems. Her two dozen students, grouped around seven tables, pay scant attention. She switches on a video machine by her desk; a neatly categorized outline flashes on the board...
...come along with his instrument to play for the conductor or simply to talk about his work. Part of Slava's new look is already visible this season. The musicians now tune up backstage. Then they file into their seats ready to play, sparing the audience the customary din of warm-up noodling...
...discos are strobe light-years removed from the borax boîtes of the '60s-most of which died a well-deserved death. In place of the tacky, bare-wall closets wired for din, push and crush, the best new places project sensuality, exclusivity and luxury. And they are booming: there are some 15,000 discos in the U.S. today, v. 3,000 only two years ago. Many of the night places are for members only, with fees and dues ranging as high as $1,000 a year. Many have good-and expensive-restaurants and such added recreational lures...
...this William Goldman's script lays out with admirable clarity and for something like half the film's running time. When events begin to overwhelm dramatic logic, Director Attenborough loses his design in the smoke and din of a huge, confused battle. Then, too, there is an attempt to humanize the conflict by recounting sundry vignettes of what life was like for troops serving below staff level. By the time James Caan has got his wounded captain to hospital and Elliott Gould has thrown a temporary bridge across a stream in record time and Robert Redford...