Word: giftedness
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"Little" magazines usually achieve the most value when they present work by writers whose energy and mutual interaction will make literary history, or have already made it. The Boston Review doesn't represent a group. You have the feeling that its various contributors haven't gotten to know one another...
What saved the opera from its pretentious libretto was the soaring music of Strauss, conducted with thunderous brilliance by the late composer's gifted friend, Karl Bohm. By turns raging and receding, mischievous and mystical, the orchestration powerfully underscored the mysterious gulfs between the two worlds and buttressed each...
Simultaneously and without sentimentality, Herbert, who narrates as well as produces Experiment, reveals the whole man - musician, engaging classroom instructor, collector of old Chaplin films, and gifted home moviemaker.
The Battle of Algeria, Gillo Pontecorvo's earnest, overlong semi-documentary about the bitter struggle for Algerian independence, impressed the judges so much that they awarded it the festival's Gold Lion, even as it outraged the touchy French. Fahrenheit 451 earned quieter but more general appreciation. Directed...
Slum Child. But the author of Anna of the Five Towns, The Old Wives' Tale, the Clayhanger trilogy and Ricey-man Steps was also a superb storyteller and a literary innovator, a Dickens shorn of romanticism. By imposing on the sentimental Edwardian fabric the realistic techniques he had absorbed...