Word: gaunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is grandly theatrical. Likewise, in Richard's last scene with old John of Gaunt, the King, instead of moving a few steps straight to his uncle, indulges himself in the histrionic flourish of making an end-run around three or four other people to reach the same spot--always the king-as-actor. When Gaunt dies, the others mournfully kneel and some cross themselves. But Richard, without the slightest twinge of remorse, effects a lightning change of mood, and obscenely comments, "So much for that. Now for our Irish wars." Announcing his confiscation of all Gaunt's property, rightfully...
...Although Gaunt dies rather early in the play, Josef Sommer makes him unforgettable. Gaunt's great panegyrie on England ("this scept'red isle") usually emerges as a one-key aria. But Sommer takes his time with it, carefully shapes its rhythms and dynamics, and lovingly introduces modulations--so that the whole thing comes across as a miniature scena with dramatic form. I have never heard it done better...
...prospects for Velasco's fifth government, which takes office August 31, are not much brighter than those of his earlier ones. Though he himself won handily, the gaunt, white-haired septuagenarian wound up with only 35 seats for his supporters in Ecuador's 132-member Congress. But he can at least take comfort from the fact that the country's 20,000-man army appears for the time being to have lost its zeal for rule. Rather than subjecting Ecuador to another debilitating series of interim governments that lack both power and popular support, the army plans...
...undertaker's assistant: a blond-mustached leader who looks like a young General Custer in buckskin and beads, a guitarist wrapped in a double-breasted blue jacket and a pageboy haircut, a woolly thatched drummer who appears to be wearing an entire rummage sale-and a gaunt, somber bassist in black mufti. What is more, their music is as motley as their garb. The blues jostle with Bartok. Country and western blurs into flamenco. Rock blares through misty impressionism...
...director, Xavier de Salas, made a startling discovery. In the upper left-hand corner, a dark picture hanging on the palace wall turned out to depict a nude man and two seminude women. The man is caressing one woman's thighs, and his face, though youthful, dark and gaunt with the strain of the bacchanal, is, says De Salas, "Goya, without any doubt...