Word: howling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abstractions from the world. At the same time, it is a parable about distinctness itself, based on another impossibility: a total negation of distinctness. "But why, then," Marco Polo asks, "does the city exist? What line separates the inside from the outside, the rumble of wheels from the howl of wolves...
Animal-Like Howl. The Japanese had paid up to 32,000 yen ($110) for a pair of top tickets, about twice the tab in New York. No price was too high to hear the Meto, as the Japanese call the visitors. The ticket holders sat still and intent during the opera. Not a late straggler nor a cough marred the concentration. The company had just finished its annual spring tour of the U.S., which featured Traviata, and so the production was in crisp form. Conductor Richard Bonynge slowed up now and then for the singers' benefit, but the orchestra...
...York standards, but highly generous when measured against the traditional reticence of Tokyo theatergoers. The biggest hand went to Robert Merrill, 56, who sings the role of the elder Germont with almost all of his familiar baritone magnificence. Mixed with the bravoes and clapping was a certain animal-like howl that signifies Japanese enthusiasm. To Western ears, the sound is uncomfortably like booing. From the brief, but noticeable, look of pain on Alexander's face, it seemed clear that he had not previously heard this form of applause...
...Arkansas to the terrible endgame in the East, with Grant clamping down on Petersburg and Richmond and Sherman burning his way through the guts of the rebellion with his hard-war sayings: "War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it... I can make this march, and make Georgia howl...
...assembled clan of dozens of men and women, many children. On stage, Betts's tour is called "An American Music Show." And it is: on the left side stands the chorus, mostly a black woman who haunts the singing with an urban, Merry-Clayton-in-Gimme-Shelter howl. In the background bobs an electric-haired bass player. On the right stands Vassar Clements, ramrod straight, hair furled and molded back, holding up the fiddle military-high. And in the center Betts, with his plain calico voice and his wondrous guitar, pulling the American Music Show together...