Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the turmoil the mood of Chile was somehow more appropriate to a carnival than a confrontation. To judge by reader response, Chilenos were considerably more interested in frontpage newspaper articles about a transvestite who had burned down one of Santiago's best-known brothels than they were in pressing economic and social issues. One recent-and typical -street brawl between anti-Allende demonstrators and police came to an abrupt halt when an abundantly curved girl walked by. The demonstrators broke into spontaneous applause, while the carabineros beat their nightsticks on their plastic shields in approval. After the girl...
...whimsical mood, Poet Randall Jarrell once conjured up a vision of the muse of poetry as a kind of fairy godmother "who says to the poet, after her colleagues have showered on him the most disconcerting and ambiguous gifts, 'Well, never mind. You're still the only one who can write poetry...
...from Weill, whom songs generally make their points by threatening to become happy, lyrical jazz just before they turn irretrievably sour. The opera's overture--a sort of bitter chorale in which the saxophones seems to be playing Bach just a little out of tune--sets the mood, and then things really get underway with the Moritat, better known as "Mack the Knife." If you have only heard Mantovani versions, you can have no idea what bite this song has. Stephen Schmidt, the conductor, puts it across beautifully, although the band has an occasional ragged moment later...
...McGovern illegitimate as a national Democratic Party candidate because of his association with a left of center minority within the Party as Democrats for Nixon organizers claimed? Can McGovern poor showing be traced to his left-liberal politics which were not in step with the conservative mood of the electorate? Or can they be traced to specific mistakes which he and his associates made in the course of the Campaign...
...everyday life-and no self-pity whatever. I saw all these things in Bates' Butley, and I realized that only he could play it." Michael Cacoyannis, who directed Bates as the repressed intellectual in Zorba the Greek, adds: "For most actors it is enough that they manage one mood with competence. Bates reflects three or four moods at the same time...