Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work. He gave himself pep talks: "This must be a good book. It simply must. I haven't any choice." To readers today, the fascination of this document rests in its portrait of an artist at the peak of his skills. Steinbeck's outrage at the mistreatment of Dust Bowl migrants in California, which he had witnessed firsthand, fused with his storytelling abilities to produce the most powerful book he would ever write. It won him the Pulitzer Prize and contributed mightily to his Nobel Prize in 1962. Both exhilarated and exhausted after finishing the book, Steinbeck wondered whether...
Despite the fact that much of it never quite gels, however, The Importance of Being Earnest is worth catching--both as a showcase for several good performances and as an excuse to dust off your own fake accent...
...called for the publication of Solzhenitsyn. They have tasted the fruits of private marketplaces and cooperative cafes, discovered the potential (and, yes, the frustrations) of private entrepreneurship; they have watched candidates debate on television and be asked whether they believe in God. And they have read articles brushing the dust off Trotsky, probing the demonic mind of Stalin and introducing them to the ideas of Lech Walesa...
Three solos mark the originality of the piece. The guitar solo, executed by Manakas, is particularly inspiring and reminiscent of the energy of Acoustic Alchemy's 1987 release, Red Dust and Spanish Lace. The flute solo generally follows the patterns set by those of the other two instruments. This repitition, however, becomes grating, and the piece begins to sound something like the old USA Cinema theme...
...entirely Janowitz's. Her only hope was to find a director who could either respond avidly to the sexual and creative energies of the avant-garde scene or take a satirical cudgel to it. Instead, she drew distant, enervated James Ivory (A Room with a View, Heat and Dust, The Bostonians), who never seems to engage fully with any subject he has tackled and who has never been more fastidiously withdrawn than he is here. In this case, however, audiences will be well advised to follow his example...