Word: horned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cars ambled up and downs the main strip, horns blaring, buge flags being waved out of windows. Women waved ecstatically from the sunroofs of cars while their boyfriends drove, looting the horn. Amid the cacophony of sound and motion girls would occasionally drop their flags in their enthusiasm and appeal to standers by to fetch it for thew and turn return it to the moving car Men on the street would usually oblige, but office only for the reward of a kiss...
Meanwhile, Jim Ross, a conducting protege of Kurt Mazur, is first solo horn of the Leipzing Gewandhaus Orchestra...
...from that of old-fashioned tyrants like his mentor, George Szell, or Fritz Reiner. "Perfectionist is one of the stupidest words in the English language," says Levine. "Take any performance. I promise you that there will be a pizzicato chord that's not together; somewhere or other a horn will crack. If there are a number of magical and successful moments that really capture what they should, then a technical imperfection here or there will pass. The question is whether you are counting successes or counting mistakes...
...family Island, the plot traces all the various preparations for this highly intricate ceremony Charlie and his two consorts (De Niro) and Alistair (William Finley) arrive in a flurry of activity, meeting the extended family of sisters, cousins, and aunts. The film shows their awkwardness in facing hags wearing horn-rimmed glasses engaged in absurd preparations...
Superficiality pervades the entire movie--especially because the array of relatives constitute a full spectrum of lifeless duds. Set in the early '60s, these characters are static period pieces; they seem lost in dated material, as if their horn-rimmed glasses had fogged their view of reality...