Word: dross
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...dashed through scale passages and tossed off finger-breaking double stops with remarkable case. He didn't display a particularly rich, sweet tone or dwell on dramatic musical events, but his performance was thoughtfully conceived and carried out with such energy that the audience was swept headlong over the dross...
...Bernstein is a musician, after all, and when he talks about music without all the linguistic dross he is both entertaining and instructive, as he was during ten years of Young People's Concerts. There is nothing new for musicians in his analysis of Mozart's G minor symphony, Beethoven's Sixth and music of Berlioz and Wagner, but from the point of view of the layman he covers a lot of ground in a palatable...
...proceedings yielded mainly dross in an atmosphere heavy with cannabis. Among the few taking matters seriously was the groom's mother, Alpha Stewart, 57, who gave her maternal blessing. "If this couple can live 40 years married as my husband and I have lived, well, they can make it if they try," she declared. There were those in the audience who thought she was perhaps referring to Sly's former reputation for failing to fulfill engagements. Then she introduced Family Friend Bishop B.R. Stewart of the Church of God in Christ, who had replaced, at her insistence...
...improvisational theater, for that is the realm into which his play falls. A Sense of Detachment is in many ways a mischievous experiment in audience exploitation. Coursing through his apparently aimless and formless play is Osborne's conviction that man, in his superficial and petty preoccupation with dross, is forgetting how to love...
...networks are also persisting in the reverse alchemy that so often has turned movie gold into weekly dross. An hour-and-a-half round robin of mystery shows on NBC will include Richard Widmark in a series called Madigan, adapted from the 1968 detective film in which he starred. On CBS, MASH, the grisly 1970 comedy about a troupe of Army surgeons in Korea, is becoming a half-hour situation comedy starring Alan Alda...