Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grim mood is evident in the talk of business and Government leaders...
...mood around the green felt table in the Great Hall of the People was almost jocular last week as Henry Kissinger sat down opposite Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping during the American Secretary of State's seventh visit to China. "How many tons?" Teng asked, pointing to the thick looseleaf briefing books that Kissinger had brought to the conference table. "Several," Kissinger said with a smile. Responded the Chinese, emphasizing that his associates came with no notes or briefing books: "All we have is guns and millet...
...well-constructed, powerful piece of theater, which gives considerable insight into Lenny's life. It is based mostly on Bruce's own routines and court battles, but manages to present them with continuity. The bits themselves, carefully edited, represent the best of Lenny Bruce and capture his change in mood and brand of humor--as arrests persisted, Lenny's character became increasingly raffish, his voice increasingly strident and self-righteous, until he was trying to frighten his audience more than amuse...
Schumann's Kinderscenen found Horowitz in a rare introspective mood, capable of colors ranging from petal pastels to autumnal browns and beiges. Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 5 was a vehicle for him to demonstrate that whereas other pianists concern themselves with degrees of loudness, he seems to be capable of a thousand variations in softness. Horowitz, perhaps our foremost Scriabin interpreter, learned this work last summer, and his performance could be faulted only for a certain underplaying of the ecstatic concluding pages...
...street he feels on his way to the subway after a late-night interview. He has also made the sensible decision not to deny his own presence; he straightforwardly records the fears, anger and liking he feels for his troubled subject?even after Jones tells him, perhaps in a mood of false boasting, that he has committed two murders for hire...