Word: passion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recording was made during a 1972 Moscow recital, 2½ years before the death of the great Soviet violinist. With loving attention to detail, at times unexpectedly puckish. Richter traced each phrase. No question, however, the show belonged to Oistrakh. Springlike and tender or with great gusts of Wagnerian passion, the music flowed from his bow with the ease of raindrops chasing down a windowpane...
...this does not obscure the fact that Bergman is working at less than full capacity. The new films lack the daunting, haunted intensity, the sheer stylistic brilliance of the earlier Persona (1966), Shame (1968) and The Passion of Anna (1969). The most recent movies are transitional works, and Face to Face is typical of them. It is a movie that marks time...
...never know when the hard times'll hit you, so you better keep your touch; a simple bouncing love song called "Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit"; and a ghost-conjuring ballad about an adultery/murder/suicide and how the newspapers missed the human tragedy: An it's just a Cuban crime of passion Messy and old-fashioned... Anjejos and knives a-slashing But that's what the people like to read about Up in America...
Jessica Sandler '78, who moved from Leverett House to South House this semester, yesterday said, "I hated Radcliffe with a passion last year even though I hardly knew anything about the place. But I didn't like Leverett particularly, so I just decided to move up to the Quad. I like the Cliffe very much--it's nice to remove yourself from Harvard, to get away when it becomes overwhelming...
...both. But in his debut, his enthusiasm for his subject overwhelmed any possibility of creating a tightly structured movie of sustained interest. Instead, he presented us fistfight after gunbattle after fistfight ad infinitum, and the final effect was to numb rather than involve us. Because the flow of passion had been so steady during the movie, the "climactic" shootout was hardly cathartic at all--it merely appeared a degree or two more intense than what had preceded...