Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sense of Whimsy. Hardship never crushed Reder's sense of whimsy. His people may be half bird; he invents preposterous musical instruments, designs costumes and headdresses that are pure fancy. His ideas come from almost anywhere-from the Old Testament, from Rabelais, from the memory of a statue of Napoleon (see color) or of a dwarf back in Czernowitz with a large head. "All I know is that when the time comes, the idea is there. It comes from my stomach, from my blood. And I never ask my blood...
...story of a female demon who once every century rises from a moldy old Moldavian crypt to terrorize the countryside. Director Mario Bava makes subtle use of a Gothic setting-much of the film was shot in a medieval Italian castle-to enhance the Gothic mood. One shot is pure black magic. The vampire's coach, black as a hearse and carved with demoniac exuberance, careens through the night like a colossal bat out of hell-but soundlessly, and in slow motion, so that it seems to be floating tunelessly through an interminable nightmare...
...Detroit's third annual Festival of American Music, the beat was strictly jazz, and the performers were pure cream: Dave Brubeck and Count Basie on the ivories, Pete Fountain on the clarinet, Jack Brokensha on the vibes, and Cannonball Adderley, the meanest alto sax this side of Basin Street. The cats in the crowd yowled for all of them. But they also cheered for a bulky banjo player, clad in a cleric's cassock, who sat in the midst of a stripe-blazered combo and lined out Bill Bailey and Paddlin' Madeleine Home with minstrel zest...
...Friedenstag, also suffered from a weak book-as did all of Strauss's operas after the death of Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Strauss had wanted Novelist Stefan Zweig as his librettist, but he was advised-i.e., ordered-by the Nazis to find a text writer of pure Aryan stock. His choice was Library Director Joseph Gregor, whose first draft was so hopeless ("Your dialogue between the two commanders is all wrong," wrote Strauss furiously; "it reads like two school teachers") that Zweig secretly rewrote the whole thing. Acclaiming the day in 1648 that the Westphalian Peace Treaty ended...
...watching the last golden leaf fall from a tree across the wire in Bavaria," he recalls. "It was a terrible loss." Now a Cornwall man like Lanyon, he says: "I've got a feeling I'm losing the landscape. I'm getting nearer and nearer to pure abstract painting. I want conflict and contrast...