Word: hoving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MOZART: THE IMPRESARIO (RCA Victor). Few new releases could possiblv hove a narrower appeal than Mozart's small squib about the tribulations of a Rudolph Bing of the 18th century. Commissioned by Emperor Josef II for a party, Mozart received a generous 50 ducats (about $300) for the work. In an effort to make it a "20th century transplantation," the libretto was reworked in English by Dory Previn, Conductor Andre's wife. Her adaptation makes it a gossipy backstage operetta of fights, love affairs and campy humor. The music that interrupts the cutesy dialogue is standard Mozart...
...that she had been "requested" to steam into Wonsan, a deep-draft port used by many Soviet submariners in preference to Vladivostok, where the continental shelf forces them to cruise uncomfortably close to the surface. At 2:32 p.m., barely 2½ hours after the first Communist PT boat hove into view, came Pueblo's last message. Engines were "all stop," Bucher reported; he was "going...
...Flag. Inspired by the Tour de France, bike racing has long been a favorite Vietnamese avocation, and the precautions taken reflected the nation's interest. Highway 1 was swept beforehand by troops of the national police. U.S. Marine checkpoints were ordered to flash word ahead as the cyclists hove into view. When the arrangements were complete, the entrants gathered on Danang's waterfront. With the starting gun, they pumped briskly off, preceded by a jeepload of tour officials clearing puzzled drivers off the highway with a red flag and siren...
Born. To Sir Laurence Olivier, 59, No. 1 flower of Britain's theater knighthood, and Joan Plowright, 36, his actress wife: their third child, second daughter; in Hove, Sussex...
Scene by scene, his compositions are works of art-but nearly always still lifes in which a man and a woman settle themselves on a couch or settee to discuss this thing called hove, both gazing trancelike into the middle distance as if to draw metaphysical meaning from the sheer monotony of it. "I feel I'm staring into a fire that is about to be extinguished," muses Gertrud in a line that expresses the umber tone of the work precisely. The poignant revelation of Gertrud is that Dreyer, now 77, has made an old man's film...