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Paradise was, obviously, hellish for the dancers to learn. The music, composed by Modernist Marius Constant, did not even allow them the luxury of discernible rhythms, sometimes consisted only of randomly twanging gongs and thumping drums. It was at times like a dance performed to the sound effects of a shoot-'em-up western. But Nureyev and Fonteyn conquered the unfamiliar idiom, emphasizing in new and exquisite ways the fluid drive and rhythmic power of their artistry...
...Beast and its hellish brood are the principal constituents of Fahrenheit 451, a number that both denotes the flash point of paper and identifies one of the innumerable book-burning brigades set up after World War III by a dictatorship determined to put out the fire of freedom in the human heart. Assembled first in that overproductive fiend factory, the fantascientific brain of Author Ray Bradbury, the brigade has now been refurbished by France's Francois Truffaut in a weirdly gay little picture that assails with both horror and humor all forms of tyranny over the mind...
which gently and coldly present a lynching in the deep South. And some take Bonesian lyric postures toward experience that is clearly Henry's. The dream songs succeed in conveying all the angst and confusion of a nightmare--the hellish switchings of identy, the loss or mutilation of the physical self--in a form that is scrupulously lyric, based on the canzone, containing (usually) eighteen lines, and variously rhymed...
...world. They see Nirvana in LSD, with its perceptual wonders, the intensity, luminosity and throbbing of colors. True, this can be blissful, but there is danger of ego loss or psychosis when someone with paranoid tendencies or a rigid personality glimpses his personal problem. It can be truly hellish...
...grand finale to two hellish weeks of elimination rounds in which 38 young conductors from 20 countries competed for a handsome reward: $5,000 for each of four first-prize winners plus a one-year contract as assistant conductors of either the New York Philharmonic or the National Symphony in Washington. The competition was unbearable; indeed, as the pressure mounted, some of the entrants seemed a bit teched. One shaggy-maned candidate continually roamed the hallways, humming and conducting an imaginary orchestra with all the jabbing vigor of a shadowboxer; another, never without his trusty baton, sat in on bull...