Word: heyday
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What was it like to be in Vienna during the heyday of Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert? Music lovers today can only wonder enviously, but within a single week recently Americans had the extraordinary opportunity to discover new works by three of their country's leading masters. In New York City with the Israel Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, 68, unveiled his high-spirited Jubilee Games. In Miami, Elliott Carter, 77, heard the Composers Quartet chart his latest passage through twelve-tone thickets in his String Quartet No. 4. And in Philadelphia, there was the premiere of Queenie Pie, a little-known "street...
...stand-up comedian just after the heyday of "Hey, hey, L.B.J." protests, Randy Quaid used to do a takeoff routine on Lyndon Johnson. "He was always some kind of buffoon figure for me when I was growing up," he acknowledges. But after being cast as the Texas politician in LBJ, an NBC-TV movie to air next season, Quaid immersed himself in research that included taped interviews with Lady Bird Johnson, who is played by Patti LuPone. "I came to have this immense respect for the man," fellow Texan Quaid, 35, says now. "I could identify very strongly with...
...York City's Whitney Museum this summer, is decidedly one of the latter. What other artist in the past 25 years has scanned the American scene more faithfully or brought such a compelling if fractured narrative out of its weird slippages and layerings of imagery? In the heyday of pop art, there was more stress on Rosenquist's means and less on his ends. One saw the devices from advertising, the billboard manner; one felt affronted by its "vulgarity" and by the schematic thinness and neatness of the paint, so heartless looking when compared with the thick, spontaneous...
Ever since the heyday of horror fiction, when Henry James and Edith Wharton tried their hands at the supernatural, aficionados have been awaiting a writer to transcend the genre and give it a new legitimacy. Clive Barker may be the man. He is as morbid as Stephen King, but unlike his American counterpart, this 33-year-old writer from Liverpool is witty, unpredictable and concise. In these five tales, an aphrodisiac turns the world into a monkey house; a vagrant with a mass of knotted material seems to be playing with nothing less than DNA; a palace is built...
...mythical audience for the Broadway musical in its heyday was the tired businessman looking for a little mindless entertainment. That kind of theatergoer has often been intimidated by Sondheim's literacy, acidity, unpredictability and aspiration. Thus Sondheim's admirers hope that Into the Woods will at last give him a blockbuster mainstream hit. However the show fares, Sondheim is once again rejuvenating a too often tired and mindless format. And the best news for the future of the musical is that Sondheim can rightly claim that, in the title phrase of a bawdy anthem he wrote for the movie...