Word: lambent
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Image of America, by R. L. Bruckberger. A literate, levelheaded French priest gives a lambent account of how the American Revolution turned dream into reality, while the Russian Revolution turned mirage into nightmare...
...singing, which should have been the glory of the performance, was disturbingly uneven. Soprano Rysanek's warm, lambent voice was as beautiful as ever, but she displayed an alarming tendency to soar to high notes and then to wander around dazedly for several bars while she tried to come down again. Bjoerling's lyric tenor lacked the heroic style that the role of Radames demands, and Gobbi was far from his compelling best. Only Mezzo Simionato sang with the range, color and fire that her fans have come to expect of her. The voices of the supporting singers...
...front in the red plush seats, the Metropolitan Opera often gives off the suggestions of high living-the rustle of silks, the lambent touch of mink, a bouquet of costly perfumes. But the $4,500,000-a-year business of putting on the opera, a money-losing enterprise at best, always is a matter of shirtsleeves and hard heads, of penny-pinching and tough bargaining. Last month the Met's money-harried management threatened to cancel next winter's entire season because the managers and the artists' union could not get together on contract terms. But last...
...much heralded Italian newcomer, Valli. Her beauty, or better-than-beauty, has an almost reptilian fascination; she is, indeed, the most fatale-looking femme since Garbo. But it remains an open question whether she can act. Hitchcock, keeping her nearly motionless, plies her with one slow, cold, lambent close-up after another. Some of these close-ups function forcefully in the storytelling; but too many are as nonfunctional as her frequent changes of hairdo. It looks as if Hitchcock, one of the smartest directors of women in the business, had been required, in Valli's case, merely to glamorize...
Conrad Nagel, 49, lambent-eyed film stalwart, was sued for divorce by 23-year-old Actress Lynn Merrick, who had stuck with him for not quite a year. She explained: "It was just a case of incompatibility. ... I lost ten pounds. . . ." An accounting of the late William S. Hart's estate added...