Word: overshadowment
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JASCHA HEIFETZ grandly and brilliantly plays the third and biggest of Brahms's three romantic sonatas for violin and piano (reissued by RCA Victor). Such virtuosity would overshadow an ordinary pianist but not the late William Kapell, who with equal ease is first sensitive accompanist, then forceful protagonist. It was on his way to California to complete recording the Brahms triptych with Heifetz that the 31-year-old Kapell was killed in a plane crash twelve years...
...when you hear "America, the Beautiful" again at the end. Most of the little parodies (like the Air Force officers who are worried about "the pinko prevert influence") come off well. Some individual scenes are truly memorable; director Tony Richardson has made Mom Joyboy's eating scene overshadow Tom Jones...
...Miss Tushingham created the role Nancy -- and New York. But Lester made an indoor play into an outdoor movie, spicing it with wild cycle rides, water skiing romps, and traffic tie-ups. His sight gags are old hat slapstick but none the worse for wear, and they don't overshadow the personal humor but become a part...
BEETHOVEN: SEPTET IN E FLAT MAJOR (Deutsche Grammophon). "I wish it were burned," said Beethoven of his early septet, because he hated to let its popularity overshadow his other works. He would surely set a match to the piece if he could hear this singable, danceable performance by the sonorous strings and woodwinds of the Berlin Philharmonic Octet...
...cautioned Moynihan, "we are going to have to acknowledge the legitimacy and social necessity of equality" as a national goal. Unlike many European countries, which have done this and quietly and successfully have eliminated poverty, the United States has tended to let its valuation of liberty overshadow that of equality...