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...great tradition" of blues, torch and jazz singers that began with Billie Holiday, Nancy Wilson leans toward the left wing, where pop meets jazz, a translator of popular standards into the jazz idiom. Her repertory is a treatise on variety and taste, spun by a voice of agile grace and knowing jazz inflection and phrasing. Yet heard in person, she poses a problem. Willowy, tawny, perfectly featured and somehow kissed by ice, she seems sometimes too beautiful for the consistently fey interpretation she gives to the lyrics of her songs...
...sulking self-mockery in his later pieces. Resemblances to later plays in A Country Scandal may be partly due to the able work of Chekhov's translater Alex Szogyi. Szogyi judiciously pruned the manuscript down from six to two and a half hours of curt speeches in contemporay idiom, broken by endless exits and entrances. The "few liberties" which the translater took "for the sake of fashioning a coherent play" almost certainly improved on the original, bringing A Country Scandal closer to Chekhov's mature comedies. And since director Frank Cassidy has freely interpreted Szogyi's adaptation as a controlled...
...Russia's withdrawal of aid in 1960 and the U.S.-Soviet nuclear test ban treaty. "Russia broke its agreements and pulled out its technicians in 24 hours, taking all their blueprints with them," Mao said. He denounced the treaty as a "swindle concluded behind our backs." Using barnyard idiom, he raged that Russia and the U.S. should not be allowed to defecate "on our heads." When his prim young interpreter hesitated in translation, Mao ordered: "Go ahead, say it. That might shock you, but it's the truth...
...believe that a great work of art is timeless," he says, and he learned his art by studying the paleolithic cave paintings at Lascaux, Sumerian tablets, and linear Egyptian murals. Prime examples are now on view at Manhattan's World House Galleries. To recapture timelessness in a modern idiom, Samant works spontaneously like an action painter, performing with his passionate pastel colors in such fast-drying media as spackle and plastic wood. Then he watches the painting for weeks. "If it's good," he shrugs, "it stands out. If it's bad, it fails...
...alternatives are black and white, so no interesting doubt exists about the decision he will make. The film is no artistic study of emotions, but a coarse defense of an excellent cold war position. As such, it is fun to watch Hollywood translating the peace ethic into a popular idiom...