Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...engaged in 'breaking' a President... So I tell my British friends that the real stability of American government is in our public sense of constitutional morality, and that the press is doing the Carter presidency a favor," etc. Safire, however, then prints the reply of an English friend: "I would be more inclined to believe you if you chaps didn't seem to relish...
...cannot guess what form art might have assumed without the example of late Cézanne. He was to cubism what Masaccio had been to the Florentine Renaissance. But Cézanne's importance as progenitor of modern art has, paradoxically, blurred him as a painter. As the English art historian Lawrence Gowing remarks, "In his last years Cézanne was reaching out for a kind of modernity that did not exist, and still does not." To gain any sense of that terrain, one must consult the paintings: and that is hard to do, since they are scattered...
...English Conductor John Pritchard, a confirmed Mozartean, unfurled these bolts of melody with a judicious blend of brio and ease. It was astonishing to note the degrees of softness he achieved with the chorus, rather than the customary piling up of decibels. The soloists were a uniformly excellent band of singers-though how they fared dramatically depended on the whim of Director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, former Wunderkind of European opera. Ponnelle attired his Electra in a red fright wig and managed the considerable feat of making Soprano Carol Neblett look less than gorgeous. Electra may be a mixed-up lady...
...magnetism that audiences have found irresistible. But Rudy I had a very different appeal from Rudy II; the Valentino swagger was manifestly a device to hide his vulnerability and naiveté. Nureyev is an athlete, a sophisticated stage performer bewildered only by the demands of the camera, of the English language and of the director. Russell, who might have used Valentino's short, unhappy life as a device for social and dramatic purposes ends by distorting the man and the epoch. What emerges beneath the dazzling exteriors is a subtext of Russell's idiosyncratic personal peeves. His movie...
...down into the box . . . The hour hand was nearly touching the nipple of metal." Atwater's stage machinery creaks a bit as Thomas and his bomb-making opponent are brought together, but the resolution is authentic, and properly somber. The rights and wrongs of the Catholic-Protestant, Irish-English struggle are lost in echoes of past foulness. The gray of gelignite is the only visible future. - John Skow