Word: lucidities
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...might be doing it to their own father. Pinter's characters are both strange and familiar with one another, as members of a family are. There is a trace of incest in his plays, and his characters take cover behind a smoke screen of language that is outwardly lucid and inwardly impenetrable. Pinter is the master of remaining incommunicado while talking, of suggesting how people keep each other at a distance with words...
...death in the summer of 1890, Vincent Van Gogh was in and out of the asylums at Aries and Saint-Rémy. Released, he traveled to Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris and stayed at a café owned by a couple named Ravoux. There he painted a lucid portrait of the couple's 16-year-old daughter before he lapsed into the madness that took his life. Portrait de Mademoiselle Ravoux survived, was bought in 1921 for $20,000, along with two other Van Gogh works, by a sharp-eyed Pennsylvania clergyman named Theodore Pitcairn. Last week...
...rehearsal, Stokowski ceremoniously pulled out his book and made a big circle around his name. Next day, a replacement was sitting in his chair. He can also be the very soul of charm. Says one musician: "He is like the morning fog. When it lifts, everything is wonderfully lucid and beautiful. When it falls again, he is absolutely inscrutable...
...Kennedy Style at the convention, but they misread both. Youth (if one can talk about "Youth" at all) is earnest and idealistic by choice, but it is inarticulate through inexperience. And President Kennedy, if awkward in speaking style, was hardly ever awkward in phrasing or thought. At his most lucid moments he made articulate questions and tentative answers out of vague popular feelings...
Mary Ann Radner, a recent Wellesley graduate, writes lucid, formal, sensually immediate lyrics and writes a great many of them: two are here. She engineers a fine collaboration of sight and sound...