Word: precisionism
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Next instant he is wooing the widow of a prince he recently killed "in my angry mood at Tewkesbury," and wooing her with cold precision and success even as she kneels by her husband's corpse. He plots his brother (Gielgud) into the king's disgrace, and has...
Richard II is one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, containing less psychological complexity than the tragedies which followed it, but overflowing with an unexcelled richness of language and imagery. It is the work of a young genius who knew his power with words and liked to exhibit it. The...
Led with precision and enthusiasm by Conductor Jean Morel, the Juilliard student orchestra began with an eclectic taradiddle called a "Preamble" by Manhattan Composer Bernard Wagenaar, then settled down to serious business: Composer Roger Sessions' Concerto for Pianoforte and Orchestra. It was the second Sessions premiere in four weeks...
Enter, Marx. In A Question of Upbringing, Author Powell created a narrator, Nicholas Jenkins, who went to a school suspiciously like his own (Eton), and at first blink the book might have been dismissed as just another clever young man's attempt to settle scores with his old school...
The scene of the addict's redemption is a shocking one, and marks the high point of Frank Sinatra's career as an actor. His performance as Machine lacks the last traces of the relaxed crooner, a manner which the still retained in a few recent comedy roles. He plays...