Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then surprises her tutors with fragments of memories that could come only from the real Anastasia, so that the film clearly believes in Santa Claus. Unfortunately Santa Claus runs away with Yul Brynner. She renounces imminent royal recognition for love in a moderately tear-jerking, immoderately unconvincing manner...
...princess. As her mentor, unfortunately, Yul Brynner demonstrates exactly the same monotonous cold tyranny that made him so successful in The King and I. Helen Hayes, never bad, has nearly always been better than she is as the iron dowager who shuts out the world. Her stern voice and manner fit the part, but her face, a bit rosy, rounded, and American, rarely becomes the countenance of an empress...
After one of Bernstein's more dramatic evenings, an onlooker remarked slyly: "It was really a shame tonight. The composer was unable to carry out Bernstein's intentions." Yet Bernstein probably violates the composer's intentions far less often than his manner may suggest. His style is neither insincere nor imprecise. It is particularly effective with modern music, with which Bernstein has had consistent success, and whose complex rhythms he feels perhaps more deeply than he feels the serenities of the classics...
...piece of music he particularly likes, he will exclaim: "God, that's wonderful. I must write something like it." He can put on any musical mask he chooses: he has successfully written boogie-style pop tunes and a seven-minute piece of medieval polyphony for The Lark. His musical manner is modern, but it lacks the uncompromising dissonance, the agonized searching that characterizes so much contemporary music. It has been said that, like the proverbial blonde, his music is extremely well put together and has all the obvious points of attraction, but no heart. Bernstein has been dismissed...
...maintained that if American pre-occupation with sex is not "stopped at the present stage, it is likely to call forth very serious consequences." He stressed that this is not his personal opinion, but that it is based on statistics, and cited advertising and television as examples of the manner in which sex is unduly publicized today...