Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until very recently, simple technical problems stood in the way of decent opera films. Movie theater sound systems couldn't deliver the dynamic range of operatic performances without unbearable distortion; directors didn't know how to dub singing voices convincingly; the acting of singers showed embarassing flaws under the close scrutiny of the movie camera. Joseph Losey's Don Giovanni is remarkable not because it records a worthy performance--it's rifled with musical problems of evert sort--but because it solves the worst of the artistic problems that have kept opera off the screen. With any luck future directors...
...just does not know how to keep his mouth shut," says a personal friend of Silber. "He bullies people and at times he borders on paranoia. He sees things conspiratorially--he sees the left...
Even the Herald has felt the effects of rising prices, though. "It's gotten like oil, you never know what the next bill will say," Baumgardener moaned...
What causes the spasm is not yet clear, but there is anecdotal evidence that psychological stress plays a role. Researchers also know that clumping blood platelets release thromboxane A2, a substance that causes the constriction of blood vessels and therefore can trigger spasm...
...with an art of crushing visual fact. In doing so he hoped to make a clean leap out of modernist history into images "not proven by a continuum," as he wrote to a friend in 1950: "I am myself-not just the sum of my ancestors, and I know myself best by my gestures, meanings...not through a study of my family tree." To a great extent he succeeded. Virtually no modernist paintings done before 1945 look like his work, and even the influence of surrealism, a vital catalyst for Pollock and Rothko, is less apparent in Still than anywhere...