Word: lyrical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bing was so very wrong. There are two fundamental ways of approaching The Magic Flute: either as a symbolic, deeply philosophical work, as Oskar Kokoschka attempted (unsuccessfully) in his stolidly realistic sets for the Lyric Opera of Chicago in November; or as straight fairy tale, as Beni Montresor tried (successfully) in his lavish scenery for the New York City Opera in October. Chagall strove to incorporate both approaches and achieved neither. He viewed the opera in terms of color, reiterating that the total effect of the scenery should be "like a bouquet of flowers." When the opera finally opened last...
Schmidt is also the grand architect of Illuminations. He presents his work on three screens and through an obscenely powerful amplifier system. I could not make sense out of all I saw and heard during Illuminations, but from those quite lyric snatches I did find coherent I would guess there is a good deal of sense to be made. Fortunately, the mitotic circle of white light and the ponderous voices puree the mind so quickly that it is only after the house lights come on that you realize that you have not understood...
...tails, ready for a twirl. Love is the only problem she knows, and that is a somewhat half-witted affair, its contretemps based on misunderstandings that a TV-trained three-year-old could settle in seconds. The battle of the sexes is either mock or bittersweet; one lyric says it all: "We should be like a couple of hot tomatoes/But you're as cold as yesterday's mashed potatoes." All this is sexy only by insinuendo-and thus stimulates the imagination more than crasser treatment...
...offer to settle for $33,000, declaring, "He's not showing any good faith." And, Rubin disclosed, Mrs. James is going to become a recording artist too. Her record will be called No Man Is Above de Lawd, and will include one song with the pointed lyric...
Centuries after the poet composed his lyric tribute to the jail-breaking qualities of young love, his words ring with a far more literal truth. "There is really no secure prison" in all of Britain, concluded a government committee headed by former First Lord of the Admiralty Earl Mountbatten. And Britain's prison ers seem determined to prove Mountbatten right. In the two weeks since the report was published, convicts have been crashing out at an embarrassing clip. At least 29 have taken what the British press ironically calls "Christmas leave...