Word: flavorful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...translation of the play does manage to preserve the flavor of the French original, and the imaginative variety of French provincial costumes by Joy Pranulis help to offset a generally roughshod performance. But despite a few graces, Tufts definitely winds up third on the list of this week's dramatic offerings...
...Actually, The Trojans is really two operas in one. The first part tells the story of the fall of Troy, while the second describes the tattered survivors at Carthage and the love story of Dido and Aeneas. The Berlioz libretto is warmed-over Virgal shot through with a Shakespearean flavor (Berlioz described parts of it as "stolen from Shakespeare and Virgilianized"). To give the sprawling work a proper production and still hold it to a manageable 4½ hours (with only minor cuts), Covent Garden prepared lavish sets and drew on all its artistic and mechanical resources. Sir John Gielgud...
...case. In other hands this story might be merely one of those Sunday-supplement series called "Did Justice Err?" But Old Pro Graves has written a fine cross section of early Victorian life. With his flair for period and his ear for dialogue-he gives a wonderful Dickens-Surtees flavor to his reconstructed conversations-Graves proves once again that a born writer can make a readable book out of an old laundry ticket, or the yellow pages of a court record...
...writer is often like dipping into a sample box of chocolates : the unwary are apt to be brought down by a surfeit of soft centers or too many brandied cherries. In this book there is no such hazard. Its eleven stories are all rock-hard and novel in flavor...
...just enough heat to make the ice crystals turn directly into water vapor. If the job is handled properly, the food loses up to nine-tenths of its weight and turns into a brittle sort of substance while staying far below the freezing point. Chemical changes, which would damage flavor, cannot take place. Even unstable vitamins are preserved...