Word: ops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout the film, the sense persists that May lost track of what she had wanted to do. Small points and moments are worried past endurance, while the main plot wanders. Watching the pic ture is an unsettling and eventually op pressive experience, like observing a person having a nervous breakdown...
...sound. He is no "Watch me go" virtuoso. His debut program, for example, was devoid of the crowd-arousing Romantic potboilers favored by so many of his Soviet predecessors. Instead, he and his piano accompanist, Xenia Knorre, played Beethoven's dreamy, introspective Sonata No. 10 in G, Op. 96. And wonderfully. They also offered an American work not many U.S. artists take the trouble to learn: Charles Ives' frolicsome Sonata No. 4 (Children's Day at the Camp Meeting...
HAYDN: QUARTETS, OP. 64, NO. 5 ("LARK") AND OP. 76, NO. 2 ("QUINTEN") (Cleveland Quartet; RCA). Two of the most subtle and spirited string quartets-crisply performed-from the pen of the man who virtually invented the form...
...over thick trousers, their hair covered by black kerchiefs knotted under black felt hats. "This cooperative has 10,000 acres, and it all used to belong to two men who only hired a few workers when they needed them," says Francisco Antonio Pombinho, 42, a worker in the co-op's machine shop. "Now there are 300 of us, and we work all the year round...
Some games have different aims. By inserting one cartridge into the sophisticated Fairchild unit, a player can become an Op artist, concocting complex traceries and Cheopsian constructions across the screen for hours on end. The unit can also make its own doodles. Fact (around $400), another system that uses cartridges to extend the range, may be a valuable teaching aid when it comes on the market next year. It flashes questions about history, science or literature onto the screen; they are answered by pressing multiple-choice buttons...