Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Davies should know. He is the music director of the only full-time chamber orchestra in the U.S., the 26-member St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Under his leadership, the St. Paul brilliantly exemplify the virtues of being middle-size. Their Baroque performances are fleet and supple yet they can muster the muscle of Beethoven and Schubert, avoiding only the more elaborately scored late-19th century works. In modern music they have a scintillating bite and precision. Throughout the repertory, their texture is so transparent that it allows for no slack playing, and there is none...
...British aide Kay Summersby, or didn't he? According to Summersby's posthumous memoir, she and Ike stole a few kisses but struck out in two attempts at lovemaking. According to the general's heirs, Ike never dreamed of cheating on Mamie. Poor ABC does not know what to think. The mini-series Ike raises the question of its hero's infidelity at every turn, only to answer that question with a resounding "Maybe." Even Henry James might marvel at the network's scrupulous ambiguity...
...Gaulle and Patton make their predictable cameo appearances. With the exception of Ian Richard son's Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, the famous faces are re-created in the crude broad strokes of Halloween masks; ABC rightly assumes that TV's chosen audience, the young, won't know the difference. Of all the Big Names the one who gets the shortest shrift is Mamie...
...selling products but on promoting its business as one essential to the nation's strategic interests. No longer merely a department title, public affairs affects who is promoted and who is fired within the company, and what actually gets decided. Confesses Chairman Garvin: "I simply do not know of any operating decisions that now get made without lots of awareness of the political and public implications...
...materials are certainly saccharine. The lovers not only are adolescents but possess near genius IQs. Daniel (Thelonious Bernard), the son of a Parisian cab driver, is a movie buff with the auteurist sensibility of a Sorbonne professor and the computer know-how of an M.I.T. grad. Lauren (Diane Lane), the stepdaughter of an overseas American corporate executive, reads Heidegger for kicks. These two meet, go steady, then flee their meddling parents by traveling by train with Olivier from Paris to Venice. Hokey as it seems, this film's Romeo and Juliet want to pledge their eternal love by kissing...