Word: orpheus
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...What was missing in their lives? What do people need in order to be happy? In this gloomy little masterpiece, Michelangelo Antonioni does not try to answer such questions. He simply shows how one young woman tried to answer them-and failed. He tells the story of a luteless Orpheus and a promiscuous Eurydice who don't even know they're in hell...
...ordered 190 slender metal planks of different sizes, to be hung from the ceiling by steel wires of extra strength. He had no final image in mind as he worked, but in the end he produced two giant floating sculptures that suggested "two friendly gods." He named his work Orpheus and Apollo...
...interior of Philharmonic Hall is divided into a lower and an upper lobby and the concert hall proper. The upper lobby will be dominated by the as yet incomplete "Orpheus and Apollo," a pair of huge, free-form sculptures of gold Munz metal. Designed by Richard Lippold, who also produced the "World Tree" of Harkness Commons, "Orpheus and Apollo" will be visible from the plaza outside and hopefully will establish a sense of immediate excitement both outside...
Despite its failings. Noah made a moving TV debut. It added up to one more success for the team that created such ballets as Petrouchka, Firebird, Orpheus and Agon. Says Prima Ballerina Melissa Hayden, who watched with admiration: "I do not know what Balanchine and Stravinsky will do next, what new medium they will conquer, and what new experiences they will give; I am only sure that when they do. I want to be there and be a part...
...England and Belgium. During this period, Rimbaud wrote his best poems, The Illuminations, which combined a child's joy in nature with the hallucinations of a youth dabbling in occult sciences and dope: naivete, depravity and delusions were fused into poems that might be the joint work of Orpheus, Freud and Hans Christian Andersen...