Word: moonlight
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...film opens, fittingly enough, with Miles thundering across the countryside on horseback, and ends with her dying on her back in a belvedere bathed in moonlight. In between, there is a fair number of sharp performances surrounding her. Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson, who must both be on permanent call for big-budget costume dramas, appear respectively as the Duke of Wellington and King George III, and behave - correctly - as if they had just found themselves in the middle of an elaborate revue...
...always painstakingly drawn from real life. They used magnifying glasses to paint weeds properly; they waited patiently year after year for the return of the apple blossoms to complete a single canvas; they would spend nights painting by a small candle in order to capture the exact effect of moonlight on a certain flower...
...REST OF THE pamphlet's analysis tumbles out in a inevitably dreary procession. Robert C. Sramans '40, Secretary of the Air Force oversees the bombing of of Indochina between meetings of the Board of Overseers. Harvard engineering professors moonlight with war contractors. The University doubles as one of Cambridge's biggest landlords while giving the cits payments in lieu of taxes that amount to only a fraction of what it should pay were it taxed equiably. The hithert faceless men of the Governing Boards, who exercise almost absolute power over the affairs of the University, turn out to be successful...
Side Two features one song that sounds just like "Dead Flowers" and another cut that resembles but is vastly inferior to "Moonlight Mile." It is redeemed primarily by the presence of "Sweet Black Angel," the flip of the current single; it is one of the few things on the entire album that is worthy of the Stones...
...Amritsar, whose Golden Temple is the holiest of holies to all Sikhs. At Agra, which was bombed in the Pakistanis' first blitz, the Taj Mahal was camouflaged with a forest of twigs and leaves and draped with burlap because its marble glowed like a white beacon in the moonlight...