Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baritone Walter Berry, Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan conducting; Angel, 5 LPs, $29.90). What a cast of performers! What a disappointment! Given Karajan's past flair for Wagner, not to mention stalwart Tenor Vickers as Tristan, this could well have been, the stereo statement of Wagner's endless paean to adultery. Instead, it is merely a smooth, workmanlike job, hampered by Dernesch's inability to make Isolde alive enough so that her death is significant. The record is also marred by the cavernous, "first-row-of-the-balcony" acoustics that Karajan seems to enjoy these days...
...title story, about an aging socialist sick of it all, is, probably the worst and certainly the most tiresome in this less than gripping display of good intentions. For one thing, the story is endless, seventy pages long. Fifty longer than it need be. It is also mercilessly superficial, and badly written. Jack Orkney's socialism, like Parisian communism and New York radical chic, is actually only another throb in the bleeding heart of liberalism. The politics here described are, no less disappointingly, such now antiquated rituals (once known and loved) as the sit-in, the pray-in, the fast...
...this summer, Evans had had enough. He was angered by the endless courtroom delays and by what he considered Distillers' niggardly settlements (an average of $23,000 per child, compared with $250,000 in Sweden). He assigned four reporters to do exhaustive research, and the result was an impassioned six-part series, "Our Thalidomide Children." The stories, which began appearing in September, were sharply angled against Distillers and condemned the protracted battle as a "national shame." Distillers' latest offer to establish an $8,000,000 trust fund for all victims would, the paper claimed, "probably be insufficient...
...high burglarproof fences. General Franco's El Pardo Palace and Prince Juan Carlos' Zarzuela Palace are not far away. Perón is reported to be a millionaire, with large sums stashed away in numbered Swiss bank accounts. His principal "business" in Madrid was receiving an almost endless stream of Argentine labor leaders, Peronist politicos and military men. They transmitted his demands and conditions for returning to Argentina to the Lanusse government, often on tape-cassette recordings of the master's voice. Were it not for the constant traffic to and from the Perón home...
...whose every work alludes in some way or another to his body-by photography and metaphor, by testing it with textures and pains and memory-should have made a narcissist's mausoleum in the form of his Mirror Room: a twelve-foot cube lined with reflecting surfaces, an endless labyrinth in three dimensions. One imagines the artist at home in it, lying perfectly at ease on the crystal floor, his image multiplied to a gratifying infinity...