Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even so, no company can long endure without a Carmen on its list, and last week, after six years' absence, Bizet's supple shocker returned to the Met in a new production. The Carmen was Grace Bumbry, a Negro mezzo-soprano from St. Louis; her Don Jose was Nicolai Gedda, a Swedish-Russian; the Escamillo was Justino Diaz, a Puerto Rican. The conductor was Zubin Mehta, an Indian from Bombay who now conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic-and who last week touched off a furor by denying that he was the least bit interested in conducting...
While most parents sigh that "there but for the grace of God go I," the press now daily inflates incidents suggesting that hell hath no fury like a scornful child. In panic, some weak parents suddenly fight dirty, for example, having a child arrested after they find pot in his room. Equally destructive are those so worried about their own status that they hush up serious misconduct and bribe miscreants with new cars. Still others incredibly flee on vacation, leaving their kids to stage monster open-house parties. Then there are swinging parents, who even try LSD with the kids...
...question of time before a federal marshal showed up at the Guests' Long Island estate. In August, he started tagging their paintings and objets d'art. Winston Guest went to court to stave off the indignity of a marshal's sale, got a month's grace, during which he scraped together the money to cover the half-million-dollar debt, plus $20,000 in interest and legal fees...
...Corbusier has made in this exhibition hall a beautiful space," Katayama explained. "Thonet chairs have grace and a flowing form of their own; I do not want to kill the spaces but relate them." To do just this Katayama has constructed, out of the left-over panels from the Bauhaus exhibition he designed last year, a series of boxes open on top and on one side. These compartments hold the forty-odd chairs in the show. He painted the panels white, painted one wall of the room red-orange, and closed off a wall of windows with black cloth...
From producer David O. Selznick's overall conception to the small details of costume and set decoration, Gone With the Wind has an innate grace, an elegance and dignity that has disappeared from movie-making. Even the rapid succession of disasters in the final 20 minutes--Scarlett's miscarriage, her daughter's fatal accident, Rhett's madness and Melanie's death--gains complete plausibility from the nuances of performnace and the stylistic subtlety of direction...