Word: fortissimo
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...people will like. It's got suspense, comedy, a big chase and a little sex. It has Demi Moore, pert and intense, every emotion acutely aquiver in fine Debra Winger fashion. But though director Jerry Zucker wants his necrophiliac romance to be sensitive, he pumps up its feelings fortissimo so the dimmest viewer will get the point. And in its vision of death on earth, Ghost is exasperatingly capricious...
...that waft like zephyrs through a movie summer humid with macho derring-do. In their world, romance is bruised but blooming; and the characters are so fully drawn that the moviegoer can become possessive of them, even judgmental, as he would with a friend. Would Sally have faked a fortissimo orgasm in a crowded restaurant? Would footloose Graham come back to Baton Rouge to find a love he lost nine years before? Of course they are not real people, and the difference is crucial in this talk-as-sex era. Real people talk back, act up, walk...
...distinctive, daffy humor and a rhythmic sense that is honed until it gleams. -- A fight for control of Paris' new opera reaches fortissimo...
...warm Carnegie acoustics, which can shelter a whispering flute and accommodate a thunderous fortissimo, the Berliners showed off the strengths that have made them the class of world-class ensembles. First there are the string sections, violins, violas, cellos and basses, which play together as one, producing a dark, creamy sound unsurpassed in lushness and sheer beauty. The brasses gleam like the finest gold, with especially choice nuggets among the horns. And there are the woodwinds, blending their highly distinctive sounds together like expert chamber musicians. In concert, the Berlin Philharmonic becomes a single instrument, devised by a craftsman...
...opera's weaknesses outweigh its strengths. They include awkwardly leaping, ungrateful vocal lines, a wearisome tendency to have everything sung fortissimo, an ultimate sameness of musical vocabulary, and a dramatic shift at the end from an 18th century moral object lesson to a Götterdämmerung of destruction that occurs on "the last day of the earth." Nor was the Boston performance much help. The work was slackly conducted and indifferently staged by Caldwell and only sporadically well sung, principally by Morgan, Hunter and Freni, and John Brandstetter as one of Marie's military lovers...