Word: emotionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trying too hard to be brittle, the dialogue often simply crumbles. Director Buzz Kulik nonetheless manages to give Warning Shot velocity by getting polished performances from his cast and by catching the spirit of stucco swank that passes for class in some down-at-heels sections of Los Angeles. As...
Literary judgments had better wait. Obviously dictated by powerful feelings, the article testified to an agonized conflict between love of country and children on the one hand and a higher love on the other. But between sincere and moving flights of emotion, there were also little hops of bathos.
One could have wished for a further development of the concluding suggestion that oftentimes neither dissenter nor defender speaks any substantial words. It is easy to lose faith in both left and right when all the observer hears are emotion-laden cliches that signify nothing.
Ginastera sees Bomarzo as "a man of our time," because he "struggles with sex, submits to violence, and is tormented by the metaphysical anxiety of death." The thesis might be more persuasive if Bomarzo were a less odd and cringing figure, and if the unremitting bleakness of his psychological life...
Joseph Dwyer as Florestan had the task of singing what is perhaps the most difficult tenor aria in all opera. "Gott. welch' Dunkel hier" really has too many A's and and Bb's for anyone to cope with and Dwver showed severe signs of strain. Nonetheless he sand with...