Word: ode
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...nose? The more the senses can be used indifferently for each other, the more our understandings would be enlarged. A rose, jassamine, a pink, a jonquil and a honeysuckle might signify the vowels, the consonants to be represented by other flowers. How charming it would be to smell an ode from a nosegay...
...made one mistake." Walker, after all, was a bad boy; he had always frightened teachers and young girls, and he had made too many mistakes on the order of assault and battery and burglary. They didn't read "To an Athlete Dying Young" at his funeral, the ode that is so customary at funerals for 20-year-olds, athletes or not. No, they concluded, this was the only way it could have ended...
Britten's characteristic eclecticism dominates the score. As always, he fits great economy of means to his amazing instrumental versatility: a platonic ode to Phaedrus is decorated with a harp; the oncoming plague is heralded by a growling dark tuba. The overture to Venice is glitteringly warm, like the Adriatic itself...
...movie isn't really an ode to romanticism; rather, it is an elegy to its passing. Cukor turns sentiment to laughter, to a capricious form of skepticism that knows "the good old days" to be illusionism. The loops of his freewheeling narrative dip eagerly into the past only to circle back a bit crestfallen. And in between, that cherished romance becomes sappy to the taste...
...ADLER, independent producer and head of Ode Records. Tall, thin, ultra-soft-spoken multimillionaire of 37. Produced Monterey Festival as well as subsequent film, Monterey Pop. Background as reigning impresario of California surf music (Jan and Dean); later managed the Mamas and the Papas and founded Dunhill Records, which he sold to ABC in 1966 for $3 million. Current label boasts Carole King, Comedy Duo Cheech and Chong and $400,000 new album of Tommy that has earned back $5 million. Dabbles in California real estate, currently dates Actress Britt Eklund. Has houses in Malibu, Bel Air and Jamaica, rises...