Word: folke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...technique was lavished on the remake, it could not match the original. They were right. Kong is a primal dream work, a symbolization of some deep and basic special anxiety of the species-and the only one created directly for the movies, having no ready roots in literature or folk lore. The crudities, the enigma of the original Kong's expression, are part of that work's strength. The wowing Technicolor virtuosity of the remake reduces the tale's mythic resonances and turns it into a safe PG entertainment. It may be that though the legend...
This land may belong to you and me, but it does not look as if it's going to belong to Bound for Glory, the soporific biopic about Woody Guthrie, the folk singer who wrote that familiar and stirring line...
...another occasion, was "to walk down the middle of the street and shoot windows out on both sides." He seldom missed, but the affection and the accolades that came his way never turned his head. He belonged, he once said, to "the dirty-fingernail set as opposed to the folk heroes of TV. I'm a working stiff, a shoe-leather...
Surprisingly, the plays are very funny in parts. Montgomery called the plays "black comedy." They were originally written for peasants to watch at all-day folk festivals, and were generally acted by amateurs...
...Concert Band played these provincial folk tunes with singular enthusiasm and sensitivity, although the performance did not quite match that of the Persichetti symphony. The performers showed their versatility in the opening "Normandie," played with gusto, sprightly clashes of brass and a fine ensemble, and in "Bretagne," somber and haunting with a nice, accented contrast of low brass and shrill woodwinds...