Word: ets
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...premieres received the best performances. The Delius, completed in 1910 and first performed in 1919, proved a major discovery. The perfumed, sensuous score is characteristic of this British composer who spent much of his life in France and suggests Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande in its allusiveness and emotional restraint. Yet there is also a distinctly modern sensibility at work in the opera's structure-eleven scenes (or "pictures," as Delius called them) strung together with orchestral interludes...
Richard Corliss's analysis in "Comedy's Post-Funny School" [May 25] gives Tomlin, Martin, Kaufman, et al, more credit than they deserve...
...roofs through a dappled grid of tree trunks the sort of beautiful abstruseness one associates with Cézanne. But always there remained an Arcadian sense of order-a confidence in reasonable appetite, one of whose physical manifestations was the fruitful, vaporous and lovingly cultivated landscape of the Seine-et-Oise...
...et ubique? A black certainly threatened to overwhelm me, the kind that prompts one child to tell another who has just shut the family cat in the freezer, "You're going...
...Boston Celtics added another flag to their collection last night-the 14th for the franchise, but the first for the Bird et al-with a gutsy 102-91 win over the Houston Rockets...