Word: evening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stargell earns some $250,000 a year for his big bat and even bigger influence...
...jilted lover (Mary Beth Hurt), the story's psycho logical suspense is gutted by a string of clumsy nightmare and flashback sequences. Were it not for the fine, anguished performances of Murphy and Hurt, the final two shows would have no more meaning or passion than the first. Even so, they are not powerful enough...
...Even his powerful reorchestration of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov was meant to dramatize the opera's message that an "antipeople government" is "inevitably" a criminal government. The composer believes that the score makes the point even more clearly than the Alexander Pushkin play on which the libretto is based. "For me, the abstract art-music-is more effective," he says...
...Music illuminates a person through and through, and it is also his last hope and final refuge. And even half-mad Stalin, a beast and a butcher, instinctively sensed that about music. That's why he feared and hated...
...superbly crafted hilarity in the pages of The New Yorker. The magazine's readers soon developed a tart tooth for Perelman's brand of satire, a mix of burlesque and Joycean wordplay boldly colored by a fastidious disdain for the fake, the tawdry and the pompous. Even the titles of Perelman's "bits of embroidery," as he called his pieces, set new boundaries for comic absurdity: Somewhere a Roscoe; Beat Me, Post-Impressionist Daddy; Amo, Amas, Amat, Amamus, Amatis, Enough; Insert Flap "A" and Throw Away; No Starch in the Dhoti, S'll Vous Plait; Methinks...