Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...measure, U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young is the Administration's most relentless practitioner of "open" diplomacy. Before his Senate confirmation, he said that he planned to speak his mind often and "fully expected" to make some mistakes in doing so. Young has made good on both promises...
...later break for dinner and a shift to another room for fresher air, she talked continually until 3:30 in the morning. As the hours passed, her own energy level mounted, and she seemed not to mind that her listeners became enervated, even drowsy, from physical inertia in relentless heat...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf. If Edward Albee's script weren't so overdetermined and relentless, and thus so inconceivable, this film might really be scary. Elizabeth Taylor plays the bitchy, voluble and (if you will) castrating Martha, the college president's daughter who tortures her History professor husband with his lack of talent, ambition and ability to have snagged tuenure without the help his marriage to her gave him. Richard Burton, as George, is even more frightening in his way: dowdy, soft-spoken, but with a corrosive edge of bitterness, hopelessness and perversity that shows just enought to make...
...performance of Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F. Melnyk's confident playing brought a luster to the interesting and varied passages of this work. His lucid style contrasted unfortunately with the orchestra's occasionally less than clear playing, but the rendering was fine on the whole, particularly in its relentless last stages...
...Allegro agitato was quick and smooth, all the more effective because of the nice transitions from piano to ensemble. Melnyk's and the orchestra's playing were especially forceful and resolute right from the beginning. Indeed, if at any time during the evening there was particularly an air of relentless fine playing, it was in the third movement of the Gershwin. It was crisp and swift as the piano clashed with the bass drum and some less conventional timpani. After startling soft and loud passages, the performance ended convincingly in an impressive surge...