Word: firelight
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...other characters turn to him as men turn instinctively to a light in darkness. He is a holy idiot, a saint who is wanted by the police. He looks like a lamb, he looks like a dragon. Unhuman understanding blazes in his eyes-or is it merely the firelight reflected? Prophetic wisdom flames from his mouth-or is he simply playing the oracle? "Lies are not always evil, nor is the truth always good . . . Blessed are those who believe in something, even if it is nothing . . . You shouldn't forget what you love. The things you love...
...drill as he plays painful jokes with musical seat cushions and leaky glasses to the lonely giggle-gurgle of his own laughter. When he learns of his cuckolding, his face looks as deserted as a broken window. Fetching Googie Withers has eyes that flicker with the reflected firelight of romance, and her voice is a stolen kiss. As a kind of reformed cad, Richard Johnson is worldly wise without being world-weary...
...realism" of the pictures baffles scholars, because thousands of years later, the Cro-Magnon's successors drew only crude symbolic pictographs. One possible explanation: the paintings are not deliberate copies of the animals but swift tracings of visions such as children see in a flickering fire. Painted by firelight, often one atop another, they have the look of fire shadows. Conceivably the Cro-Magnon artists painted just what they saw looming, falling and gliding along the rough walls of their vast hollow shrine: animals immaterial, yet visible...
...Morning Star offers at least a tenuous contact with nature: it seems to represent the crumpled ghost of a sailing ship plowing icy seas into the dawn. Michael Goldberg's Summer House looks more like a frost-adorned window in the dead of a winter night, reflecting firelight against the dark outside...
...narration based on Paul Horgan's Pulitzer Prizewinning book Great River: The Rio Grande. Commissioned two years ago by the Dallas Symphony and performed under Walter Hendl, Rio Grande proved to be a collection of twelve thematic snippets-A River Created, Desert and Canyon: Texas-Mexico. Soldiers by Firelight-celebrating the river's history and lurid scenery. Composer Bacon's music, liberally scored for piano, vibraphone and harp, illuminates the text and is occasionally brilliantly evocative, e.g., in the tiny, clear sounds of the orchestra accompanying the words "The evening star hung like a drop of water...