Word: lyrically
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...empted in recent years. Sometimes stage nudity is irrelevant, as in Bruce Jay Friedman's Scuba Duba, where a woman, both topless and pendulous, runs purposelessly down a flight of stairs. On the other hand, in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, it enhances a scene of lyric sensuousness in which a girl models for her artist-lover with her back to the audience...
...American Symphonist Roger Sessions is going to be a difficult composer for the public to like. At Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall last week, his new Eighth Symphony-masterful in its lyric use of twelve-tone principles, fearless in its glacial austerity-laid one of the big eggs of the season. At the close, few in the audience even realized the work was over; men were caught with their arms folded, women with fingers entwined in their coiffures. Thus surprised, they were able to summon up only enough applause to give Sessions and Conductor Steinberg a single extra...
HISTOIRE, by Claude Simon. One of France's leading New Novelists turns a family history into lyric fragments that subtly link the nature of consciousness and the storyteller...
HISTOIRE, by Claude Simon. One of France's leading New Novelists turns a family history into lyric fragments that subtly link the nature of consciousness and the storyteller...
...this is wondrously irrelevant to the overall lyric effect. Simon can be chided for the illusory pun of his title and for his helpful but distracting prefatory lines from Rilke: "It submerges us. We organize it. It falls to pieces. We organize it again and fall to pieces ourselves." But Simon is at ease with uncertainties and loose ends. In fact, loose ends are his antennae. How he uses them to convey his own private perceptions is his mystery...