Word: leitmotiv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thousands of cloistered valleys, Himalayan artists developed a magnificence and mystery of their own. "The visual diversity of Himalayan art is incredibly wide," says Singh. "The sculptures are carved in all forms of relief, and in painting the variety of colors is equally rich. But to find the leitmotiv," he adds, "one must look beyond its incidental stylistic, mythological, ritualistic and legendary associations, toward the majestic silvery peaks symbolizing primeval ideals...
...Your cover story and a current historical bestseller, Barbara Tuchman's The Proud Tower, share a leitmotiv from Edgar Allan Poe's "The City in the Sea": While from a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down...
...minutes to an hour, but average 20 minutes. >Events in a dream happen about as fast as corresponding events in reality. > Occasionally a sleeper has a series of related dreams, like soap-opera installments, and sometimes a common thread runs through two or more dreams like a leitmotiv. >Outside events, such as the noise of opening and closing doors, are rarely incorporated in the dreamer's libretto...
...Fashioned Thanksgiving (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Charlton Heston, Eddie Foy Jr., Dick Button, Betty Johnson, Richard Kiley, Comedians Bob and Ray, and Gene Barry in a musical special with gobble gobble gobble as the leitmotiv...
...Wagner's operas are characterized by unendliche Melodie, Vaughan Williams' piece was written in unendliches Rezitativ-- and the closest thing to a leitmotiv is the broken and falling voice of the sea itself. The lines follow the natural intonations of the human voice as closely as possible, breaking only at rare intervals into a supple and more melodic arietta. The orchestration, furthermore, is designed only to emphasize the emotions of the speakers (the violins quaver in apprehension, the oboe sonorously heightens the women's grief...