Word: raveled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BLAKE EDWARDS, the ads tell us, is "the man who painted the panther pink," and put Ravel's Bolero on Billboard's Top Forty. Yet before reviving The Pink Panther, Edwards sired a series of flops that turned Hollywood against him. No longer able to make films on the West Coast, Edwards produced the Panther series in Europe. From the height of his knowledge about Tinsel Town, Edwards, with all credibility now restored, takes a pot shot at Hollywood--the angry gesture, it would seem, of a much maliened...
...people to her crusade. For 18 years the elegantly impoverished daughter of Renishaw lived in unfashionable Bayswater. Her literary teas Evelyn Waugh summed up tersely as "stale buns and no chairs." Yet what names eagerly scrambled up the dingy stairs to knock on her "nasty green door." T.S. Eliot, Ravel, Diaghilev, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, William Butler Yeats were among the Olympians one might have met at the Sitwells' salons...
...were their first tour. Each of the three brings his own insight to every performance: after 25 years, they have developed enough familiarity and confidence to follow one another's inspirations as they occur. The result is an ever-new sound on stage. Greenhouse comments. "When we play the Ravel Trio for our 30th anniversary, it won't sound anything like the way we played it on our 25th...
...taken a sunny approach to this nightmare. Harassed frogs are still genial; abused cats take a philosophical view. In L'Enfant Hockney creates his richest, most brilliant sets and French Conductor Manuel Rosenthal coaxes the most subtle performance from the Met orchestra. It has been said that the Ravel work is such a perfect distillation of orchestral and vocal art that it resists dramatization, that no physical embodiment of it is possible. Perhaps.Yet the Met does justice to the masterpiece with an approach that is both witty and tender, and one leaves under the spell of Ravel...
Still, the evening was a bit of a puzzlement. Even though the Ravel was a success, why does a major opera house try to produce dance, a project like Parade, when the American Ballet Theater will occupy its very premises in two months' time and George Balanchine reigns just across Lincoln Center Plaza...