Word: neither
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neither read nor seen "Richard III" prior to Monday night and consequently my approach to this interpretation may have benefited from lack of prejudice as much as it suffered from lack of tutoring. The management has supplied each ticket-holder with a simplified genelogical chart of the Houses of Lancaster and York, along with a short history of England in Richard's time, but I found the play still hopelessly confusing to follow. This would be of no importance if the play contained enough compensating poetry, but it is a procession of blood and rhetoric, both a little too thick...
...That matter is neither destroyed nor created during a chemical reaction, such as combustion...
...works) in 1911. It was not produced until 1918, and then it met with no success. The plot was deadly dull: nothing but Bluebeard and fourth wife Judith walking from one door of the castle's great hall to another, until all its seven doors are unlocked. But neither radio listeners nor Dallas concertgoers (who saw a concert version) had to worry about that. Bluebeard's doors gave Bartok plenty of chance for variety, e.g., a broad, majestic theme in full brass when Judith opens the door looking out upon Bluebeard's rich manorial lands; harp arpeggios...
...appointed first musician of the Reich by Hitler, although he has [since] been cleared by the denazification courts . . ." But Furtwangler was told there was "no need to worry." In Vienna, the gaunt, 62-year-old conductor announced the deal himself: he would conduct for eight weeks at a sum neither he nor Chicago would reveal...
...sets itself some high hurdles and clears them all-mostly with room to spare. The picture begins as three young matrons in station-wagon suburbia learn that one of their husbands has run off with a feared and envied local charmer. Leaving the runaway husband's identity dangling (neither the wives nor the audience is in on the secret at first), Writer-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz explores each wife's marital security in three long flashbacks. Then, with considerable skill and a sort of hard-bitten humor, he pulls off an ending that is adroit but fair, surprising...