Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benny Adler, as the leering president of "Winkler's Frock," was familiar with the part, but not with the lines. His burlesque house technique and his insistence on separating every vaguely amusing sentence and delivering it as a punchline increased the weakness of an already disjointed dialogue...
...Hymne d'actions de graces by the blind organist Jean Langlais. Messaien's fine Banquet celeste, though an early work, bears the clear stamp of its composer, who has refused to adhere to any "school." It is seraphic, and mystically inconclusive. Jehan Alain's lucid Phrygian Ballade and familiar Litanies point up the great loss we suffered when this young composer was tragically killed in World...
Tanned, mustachioed Charlie Chaprales, familiar Harvard Square restauranteur-sportsman, is shown here with the seven foot, 94-pound Blue Marlin he recently landed off the Florida Keys, and his brother John (front...
...with blended brushwork, brilliant light and shimmering color creating a rich canvas. Other notable works in this gallery are a first rate Cezanne still-life, an excellent Degas (ballet dancers), a good Gauguin, a fine Lautrec and two good Monets--one of these latter being a rendering of the familiar Gare St. Lazare...
...choice of this play marked an act of courage. Few people are familiar with it. Those with any knowledge of the plot have usually acquired it through one of the dozen or so operatic versions, chiefly Nicolai's Merry Wives of Windsor, Verdi's Falstaff, or Vaughan Williams' Sir John in Love. But the directors were willing to gamble (or gambol); and their slot (or slut) machine has come up with three cherries--a winning combination that ought to keep the box office coffers filled and the audience coughers silent...