Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gold Dust Twins. Bernstein had the very touch Zeffirelli needed to complete a chef-d'oeuvre: under his baton, Verdi's wit and whimsy seemed ironic and sharp. He brought modern accents and strong colors to the aerial delicacy of Verdi's score, and drove the Met's orchestra at a pace that left the superb cast flushed and breathless...
Bernstein and Zeffirelli got along like Gold Dust twins. "We are of the same generation," the 38-year-old Zeffirelli would say, "and we see things in the same light." That meant seeing Falstaff, quite uniquely, as a tragedy-an expression of absurdity, an old man's revenge. "This is Verdi's monument to the ungenerosity of people," said Zeffirelli of Verdi's last opera and his only comedy.* "It really isn't funny...
...stories fail to get off dead center. He does not point; he does not posture; he does not underscore. But as he pokes through the dusty closets of memory, Taylor conjures up ghosts that will continue to walk abroad in the reader's imagination long after the dust of indifference has settled on his flashier contemporaries...
...eminent Victorian's mantelpiece was complete without its little bronze animal, but even before Swedish modern had come along to sweep the house clean of dust catchers, such sentimental statuary had already wound up in the flea market. Most of it was indeed cloying bric-a-brac, but not all. Certain early 19th century French artists, quite logically called les animaliers, made small sculptures, of fauna filled with direct, vibrant naturalism...
...title. "Mr. President," said Mansfield, "I object to the second reading of the bill today." Those two sentences were part of an elaborate parliamentary maneuver aimed at bypassing the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's James Eastland, who could be expected to keep the bill gathering dust for months. By his action, Mansfield retained control of the bill's course. He then announced that the Senate will first take up the Administration's new farm bill, will probably next consider a $16.9 billion authorization bill for military equipment, then turn to the sweeping civil rights measure...