Word: limned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blooded youth (Anthony Franciosa) newly arrived in Madrid from the sticks. The duchess (Ava Gardner), a democratic type who prefers saloons to salons, eyes him ravishingly after he rescues her from a ruffian in a tavern. In a twinkling, Paco packs off to the South to love and limn her for the ages...
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (Norman Foster, bass-baritone; Bamberg Symphony conducted by Jascha Horenstein; Vox). These beautiful "songs for dead children," written more than 50 years ago, limn the gloomy sentiments of the discouraged Mahler and the aging splendor of turn-of-the-century Vienna. Boston's Norman Foster does them with a fine, lyrical sense...
...drawings prove that in his feelings he is still very much a man like other men-despite his troubles with Francoise.* Erotic, nostalgic, satiric, philosophic and clownish by turns, he shows bafflement, bitterness, faithlessness, a saving sense of humor and an even healthier sense of mystery. He can limn a breast or buttock, an evil grin or a sorrowful eye, with one stroke of his pen, but he never stands on skill alone, and even scorns perfection. A devoted artist, he keeps showing by purposeful slips and elisions that art is a matter of illusion. "What's my line...
...Robert Shaw; RCA Victor Orchestra; Victor). The best recording to date, but for some reason one of the world's most beautiful scores continues to defy recording techniques: too often the chorus overpowers the orchestra when it should float over it, clouds the counterpoint when it should limn...