Word: limpidly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Joan Bennett plays the leading lady with a brassy verve that is matched by Donald Cook as her husband. Romney Brent plays Miss Bennett's collaborator with a limpid little-boy charm. Edith Meiser carries a spinster character role with enough energy to compensate for the poor lines she was given, and Jerome Cowan plays an amorous Internal Revenue agent. The play is held together by a succession of hilarious stage business, a routine with Mr. Cook drinking coffee, and other bits which are marvelously performed...
Mozart: Requiem (the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Westminster Choir, conducted by Bruno Walter on a Columbia LP; Vienna Symphony and State Opera Chorus conducted by Eugen Jochum on Decca; Vienna State Opera Orchestra and Academy Chamber Choir conducted by Hermann Scherchen on London Ducretet-Thomson). The limpid choruses of Mozart's last work have always resisted the efforts of record makers, and are still a bit troublesome on these three latest versions. Conductor Walter's has a certain dramatic excitement but also a rather thick tone; Scherchen's (in the same performance recorded two years...
...Something very French, something subtly exciting to watch. And the excitement is made more exquisite by the sensitive way the director resolves music and color (nobody could guess that he is working with color for the first time), actor and setting, sophisticated laughter and simple sadness in a limpid mood that lies somewhere between innocence and experience, heartache and heartache. It is the mood that is created by many Renaissance love songs, and René Clair sings it as sweetly as Ronsard...
...from Copland's opera The Tender Land (1953), went far better than on the Chorus' telecast, owing to the use of more singers and rehearsals. The opera was not considered a success; but the criticism was aimed at the libretto and dramatic structure. The music was always warm and limpid...
...spring crept up on the entertainment world, lovebirds, young and middle-agish. began to warble of making nests, although their fluty chirps were all but drowned out by the quasi-romantic uproar emanating from the welter of Kelly-Rainier prenuptial rites (see PRESS). Italy's limpid-eyed Cinemorsel Marisa Pavan, 23, an Oscar nominee for her supporting role in The Rose Tattoo, was going to marry France's dashing Cinemale Jean Pierre Aumont this summer; she thought he was "about 42" (he is 46), pooh-poohed his Riviera trysts with Grace Kelly as "just a publicity stunt...