Word: gauntly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flinty Intransigence. The result is that Still has become a respected enigma. He is seen as a model of flinty intransigence, and looks it: a gaunt, atrabilious figure of 71 with a cutting eye, he has managed to control the fate of his work more effectively than any other artist of his generation. He still owns nearly all his output, going back over four decades and comprising thousands of paintings, all closely documented and indexed. Still's canvases rarely find their way onto the market. He will not sell them except to the few collectors and fewer museums...
There is no trace of the oppressive, gaunt quality of Bergman's earlier films. The Magic Flute is a work of such magic and belief that Bergman's agonized mysticism seems to have found a total release in the expression of another artist's orderly, God-filled universe. The film is sensitive, joyful, full of serious wit. One hates to say it, but classical opera is rarely so sexy or so much fun as this...
...Valera survived and succeeded. Through a defeated insurrection and a lost civil war, "Dev" struggled to free and unite the nation that had adopted him. When he died last week in Dublin, 92 and nearly blind, few of his countrymen could recall a time when De Valera's gaunt, beak-nosed visage was not a part of Irish political life...
...black educator and psychologist, recalls that in the Depression, "for the first time there was equality in deprivation. Suffering was democratic." He remembers, too, the ferment, the "curious social and political optimism." For others, the more lasting picture of the Depression will be those haunting photographs of the gaunt faces of undernourished sharecroppers...
...Moscow. Through the thunder of kettledrums in the symphony's last movement, the wail of air-raid sirens was heard, but no one left the hall. With the final burst of dazzling sound the audience sprang to its feet and gave a long ovation to the pale, gaunt composer...