Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finest portion of the film was the last. For this much of the credit goes to the marvelous chorus of avenging Furies, whose frightening make-up, snakepit writhings and almost surrealistic dancing were worthy even of Dante's Inferno. The play itself is a real suspense thriller, with the out-come in doubt. It builds up to the theatre's first trial by jury, a device that is still proving useful to dramatists 2500 years later...
SELECTED POEMS, by Andrei Voznesensky. These first-rate translations by W. H. Auden and others justify Voznesensky's reputation as Russia's finest lyric poet since Pasternak...
...Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, a kind of teaser course for the uninitiated, moved on to headier stuff by Vaughan Williams, Frederick Delius and William Walton. The orchestra more than lived up to its reputation as one of the world's finest ensembles. Bolstered by such first-rank performers as Composer-Conductor Aaron Copland, Cellist Janos Starker, Violinist Jaime Laredo and Pianist John Ogdon, the festival was off to an impressive start...
Mongolian Monitor. L'Équipe (meaning "team") is the world's finest sports newspaper. It devotes almost half its space to athletic events that take place outside France, offers coverage so comprehensive that it probably would not miss a pingpong championship between Inner and Outer Mongolia. The paper reports regularly on 15 major sports and faithfully follows 25 minor ones, including such little-played games as field hockey and volleyball. The only sports of any significance that L'Équipe does not cover are horse racing, which it opposes on moral grounds, plus British cricket, U.S. football...
...stone, ambiguous as Tierasian, way out of focus, Bob Dylan unfolds like a playmets from Blonde on Blonde, his Opus 7. It is a double album, four sides, fourteen new songs. Sadly, a single disc could have distilled the four or five strong cuts scattered here, though the finest, "Sad Eyed Lady of the Low-lands," commands a full side to itself. The prophet has mined much slag this trip. This is not an entirely gratifying reward for Dylan devotees who have waited out his silence faithfully, the near year since last September's release of Highway 61 Revisited, Opus...