Word: dwarf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certainly loves her daughter Charlotte (Alejandra Podesta). She is beguiled by Charlotte's grace, her easy imperiousness, her ease with languages, her virtuosity at the piano. And she refuses to accept what is evident to all: that Charlotte, now on the cusp of womanhood, is a dwarf. The townspeople pretend to ignore it. But one fellow, the aging stranger Ludovico D'Andrea (Marcello Mastroianni), sees Charlotte's disability as a sweet eccentricity, like a birthmark or an overbite. Ludovico has been courting Dona Leonor in his fashion, and someday he will be a doting stepfather to the girl. He will...
...fully researched scene after another -- gill-netters at work, an autopsy, digging for geoduck clams. With equal precision, Guterson traces the shadow lives of Japanese in the Northwest at a time when Americans of Japanese descent were referred to by Census takers as "Jap Number 1 ... laughing Jap, dwarf...
Rowe's experiences at the turbulent Harvard of the sixties may ready him for the transition to today's complex institution. At the University of 1990s, issues of funding and accountability dwarf any faculty-student strife...
...soprano Deborah Polaski, playing Brunnhilde, especially in Die Walkure. Tall, handsome, heroic in gesture and carriage, she should make an ideal goddess. But with her bulky breastplate and helmet and huge skirt, she looks like the typical porky Wagnerian. The Rhinemaidens are decked out in biker gear, the dwarf Alberich wears one bright green sneaker. A reference to the Green movement? Who knows...
...quite surprising that Ax manages to dwarf Ma's usually colossal sound. One wouldn't expect such strange dynamics from a pair who have recorded all the major cello sonatas together over the last 15 years. For most of the Schumann, it seems that the strings are seated much further behind the microphone than the pianist; their resultingly tinny tones are swept away by Ax's nebulous waves of sound...