Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES: A WORLD OF SONG (Angel). All these songs are well known, and several are chestnuts. All the more wonder that Soprano de los Angeles has produced a fresh and enlightening record. She gives La Paloma a relaxed performance, full of a sly, feminine humor; her gypsy songs are sung head-on with open, hearty tones. On the other side. Ich Liebe Dich, Brahms's Lullaby and Songs My Mother Taught Me get serene, tender treatment. Many of these songs have been recorded by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Angel), with whom De los Angeles shares the title...
Having only that much to say, this free-flowing film short-unbroken by a single word of dialogue-says it with exceptional humor and freshness in precisely 18 minutes. Never overemphasizing, music combines with the insistent scrape of skate wheels in a cheery valedictory to the beardless lads (all played by nonprofessionals), presumably headed for new spills and thrills on the freeways of biological maturity. Producer Marshal Backlar, 30, and Writer-Director Noel Black, 28, thus establish themselves as novice moviemakers who seem happily unafraid of going their own way. They resolutely tackle a minor theme and polish...
...Pale Fire, Pnin, etc.) have been more complex fantasies. One of them is this prophetic, satirical play, written in 1938 and now gracefully translated from the Russian by Author Nabokov and his son Dmitri. The reader can scarcely imagine its being successfully performed, but its characteristically savage humor and verbal inventiveness will be earnestly devoured by the large American colony of Nabokovites...
Much of the performance's humor, unfortunately, was due to the strange and mawkish Auden-Kallman English translation; many serious moments are transformed into unintentional burlesque...
Critic Malcolm Cowley provides some humor, purring out cultured inanities at the behest of two student interviewers. To Cowley and his interviewers literature appears to be a collection of names and decades. In one daring tautology, Cowley concludes that the key to the Golden Twenties was that its writers "weren't burdened with all the rules and precepts and great examples that were more or less imposed on the writers who followed them...