Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arrive in Monterey." He made that note. Maybe that was a place to start. But then where? For Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California, is more than 3000 miles from Cambridge, more than 10,000 miles, further away than a trip to the moon in a rubber balloon. It stands a world apart. And as the boy looked back on the five days he had spent there, he only knew that they were the most unreal, or the most real, experience of his life...
...Melisande is that its intense symbolism may lead scenic intermediaries either to leave one with vaporous visual suggestions, which cause bewilderment, or with disfiguring interpretations, which cause exasperation. The main problem with the Conservatory production was its reliance on an unimaginatively employed diorama yielding only the sun and moon on occasion, and totally failing to conjure the forest or grotto scenes. The lighting too often cast a mustard pall on the actors, with the exceptions of Act IV scene i and Act V throughout. The direction failed to take to heart Debussy's insistence that an improper gesture would...
...screen she may have been flatfooted; offstage she could have used some lead weights on her shoes. When she first met Dali, he gave her a bit of rock he called "a tiny piece of the moon." Shortly thereafter, the painter invited the young actress for tea. "That afternoon," he remembers, "I had received a beautiful box of butterflies, and I had them on the table when she came in. We had English muffins with honey, and as she talked she took one butterfly out of the box, put it on top of the honey and ate it. She finished...
GYORGY LIGETH LUX AETERNA (Deutsche Grammophon). Moviegoers may be familiar with Ligeti's score from its use in 2001: A Space Odyssey, where it accompanies the discovery of the monolith on the moon. The music is not conceived stereophonically but, like a clever piece of audible op art, achieves that effect from its dense-textured 16-part counterpoint, which seems to shimmer around its source in concentric waves. As an exercise in the deceptive qualities of pure sound, it is an awesome tour de force...
...that was publicly denounced by Professional Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair as a violation of church-and-state separation. NASA, however, has received more than 800 letters approving the Scripture reading-many of them also proposing that Mrs. O'Hair be rocketed to the moon and left there...