Word: loveliest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that it was almost deformed. But in looks at least, Anna Karenina has been lucky. The author himself fell in love with her, performing a graceful act of plastic surgery before he introduced her to the public, and over the years she has been portrayed by some of the loveliest women in the world. The great Garbo played her twice, and Vivien Leigh added her exquisite beauty to the part 13 years later. In this ten-part series from the BBC, premiering on PBS Sunday, Feb. 5, Anna is again well served. Nicola Pagett, who played the Bellamys' willful...
...STRAYS from protest to love, Paxton shows more of his soft side. At his most tender in "You're So Beautiful," Paxton calls his wife, "the loveliest women a man ever knew." Paxton runs the risk of using enough saccharine to kill a tubful of Canadian rats, but this sentimental ode at least provides a suitable contrast to Paxton's political commentary. "There Goes the Mountain," Paxton's plea for preservation of nature, also combines sweet and bitter in just the right proportions. Steve Goodman harmonizes as Paxton personifies the mountain, the "avalanche-maker, heaven's caretaker." Paxton stimulates nostalgia...
Sweet Wizard. Caldwell's long-time partners, Set Designers Helen Pond and Herbert Senn, have devised one of their loveliest productions-a succession of murals and drops, in blacks, golds and reds, patterned after the finely detailed Palekh lacquered boxes that were fashionable in Russia after the 1917 Revolution. The Canadian bass Victor Braun and the American coloratura Jeanette Scovotti, both of whom work primarily in Europe, made a valiant pair of lovers. John Moulson, a member of East Berlin's Komische Oper, sang the wizard with an uncommonly sweet and powerful tenor. From Pittsburgh Soprano Marianna Christos...
...circus and a particularly loony occultist (Cicely Browne). But the presentation of most of these figures is so inert that they constitute a series of waxworks, tableaux morts. The film's only burst of real energy, a tumultuous Venetian festival at the beginning, is quickly dissipated. Its loveliest image is completely gratuitous: the candle-laden chandeliers of a theater are lowered to the floor and extinguished by footmen wielding long fans...
...gracious boulevards and 7,211 acres of public parks. Kansas Citians have a fetish for fountains; it is almost a gaucherie for a developer to erect a building without one outside. The latest is a $150,000 concrete and steel-alloy fountain in Blue Valley Park. Some of the loveliest are in the Spanish-style Country Club Plaza, an opulent shopping and residential complex; it was the nation's first shopping center when Developer J.C. Nichols built it in the early...