Word: heftier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Form's Conscience. Since nothing heftier than a lingering lyricism is common to his varied compositions, Milhaud has been particularly vulnerable to misunderstanding-or simple dislike-all his life. In his days with the Groupe des Six in Paris, he expanded music's language with his studies of polytonality, meter and counterpoint, but he also wrote music that was crippled by flat jokes, banalities and topical trivia. He has written music for text by the Catholic laureate Paul Claudel-and also a Bar Mitzvah cantata for Israel's 13th birthday. With 15 operas, 12 symphonies, 25 film...
...stock sale eased Green Bay's finances, but now the Packers suffered from another, more obstinate ailment: anemia on the football field. Feeding on heftier bankrolls, the big-city teams-the New York Giants. Los Angeles Rams. Cleveland Browns. Detroit Lions-ruled the league. Starting in 1948. the small-town Packers went eleven years without a winning season. In 1958. they won only one game Tout of twelve). Things got so bad that Green Bay youngsters tore up their autograph books and Packer coaches wisely left their telephones off the hook. "A small town." says Coach Harland Svare...
...ignorant of their escape into adolescent self-satisfaction, as they would be unready to admit that flight. For most, Bogey flicks will happily remain as opportunities to relish vicariously the succession of unachieved sexual encounters of Marlowe/Spade/Bogart or to laugh at the thick ankles popular in a heftier age. For any who are made uncomfortable by the realities that crawl slightly under the surface of most Bogey pictures (the frightening and disgusting homosexual misogynism of Capote's Beat the Devil, for example) there are hundreds, one fears thousands, who percieve only the reasonable superficial escapist qualities of all movies herein...