Word: munched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play games in the trees and the grass and the flowers. At times he is successful. The mock gunfight between Sparre and his friend on a huge old tree is a beautiful tableau. When Elvira and Sparre walk up a road, the scene has the haunting quality of a Munch painting. But these two scenes are the only truly fine outdoor sequences that are properly exposed. In the rest, the greens are mercilessly washed out in white light; exposures are nearly always one to two stops...
They are canning tomatoes now, not the old familiar stewed tomato, but regular fresh tomatoes, cut up and sold as "Canned fresh tomato slices." The new product is advertised on television: happy families eating tomatoes in their salad, smiling as they munch the nutritious tomato slices...
...When I pick up a sandwich to munch...
...much the model for conductors in his era as Toscanini was in his, although, as Bernstein nears 50, even he is slackening his frenetic pace somewhat. In this image-conscious culture, every orchestra wants its conductor to have some of Bernstein's incalculable personality force-what Conductor Charles Munch calls the "magic emanation" that can lift a conductor's performances above the mere exercise of knowledge and professional skill...
...opening program was typical of Munch's cautious adventurousness: Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, Debussy's La Mer and Stravinsky's recent, brief Requiem Canticles. At 76, Munch brought a remarkably youthful enthusiasm to the podium; and this, as much as anything, may explain the new era of clarity, precision and musicianship reborn in Paris through its new orchestra. As one astounded member noted after a rehearsal, some of the men even take their music home to practice...