Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wearing chinchilla and diamond tiaras, distinguished men in white tie and tails as they passed through the chilly Australian winter night into Her Majesty's Theater. The glittering audience that had paid an Australian record top of $23.50 for a seat were treated to the city's finest opera performance since Nellie Melba returned to her native shores...
...Psalm 100 ("Make a joyful noise unto the Lord"). Psalm 23 ("The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want") was a pastoral solo sung by a boy alto till the chorus interrupted with "Why do the nations rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?" The third and finest section of Bernstein's 18½-minute work interweaves Psalm 131 through a simple canon to a pianissimo "Amen...
Yoshimura set out with "passion, sincerity and artistic fervor" to achieve "the finest possible space effect through the simplest possible composition." While using modern materials like steel and concrete, he hoped to build "a new palace for Japan so elevated in grace and dignity that it will be worthy of being preserved for posterity." His design called for a quadrangle of ceremonial halls (the Emperor will "commute" from his nearby living quarters), each pavilion to be propped serenely on stilts like a Shinto shrine and set shimmering amid a beautiful pine grove. There would be escalators for elderly visitors...
...details-from the bronze sheeting on the concrete columns to the pebbles in the garden-were everything. "With design alone," he said, "not even Picasso can do a painting. He has to affix color, and in the process of doing so he will revise the original design for the finest possible overall effect. It's exactly the same with me as an architect...
...Finest Hours. In fact, assistance was something that Selznick always felt he could dispense with. "Your ideas may be right," he once explained to Director George Cukor while in the process of firing him, "but if I'm going to fall on my face, it is going to be entirely my own mistake." What Selznick did be lieve in was quality, talent and free-spending, and it turned out to be a formula that gave Hollywood some of its finest hours. Selznick's Bill of Divorcement introduced Katharine Hepburn to films; Freddy Bartholomew was discovered for David Copperfield...