Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon covers only a short period of the saint's life; his return from the war between Assisi and the rival town of Perugia, his subsequent illness and conversion, the rebuilding of the ruined church of San Damiano, and his trip to Rome to seek advice from Pope Innocent III. Given this limited time-span and the painstaking efforts Zeffirelli makes to focus on the reasons for Francis's conduct, he explains astonishingly little of what was happening in twelfth-century Italy, both according to historical fact and to his own fiction. The war could...
...amazing, back-breaking discipline. The Field Figures segment is fairly successful, partly because modern ballet, like modern dance, depends more on physical relationships than on theatrical effects and can therefore stand the closeness of the camera, and also because Bergsma is a fascinating dancer. She has legs which rival Nureyev's, in their own special way. And, of course, he and Fonteyn together are unbeatable. One of the good aspects of this film is that it is possible tosee how much better Nureyev performs, how much he comes out of himself when he is dancing with Fonteyn than when...
...passionate omnivorousness, a scale of experience not limited by a priori definitions of what painting or sculpture can carry; with an energetic and Mediterranean humanism. The life springs from the appetites, and the art from both. Or now, "sprang"; for no artist left alive has been able to rival Picasso's cultural embodiment of the self. The confidence in which Picasso lived -that everything really pleasurable or painful to the senses or central to one's social experience could be rendered in painting and sculpture-has disappeared. That certainty about the inclusiveness and eloquence of art was shared...
Reiner said that powerhouse Columbia, rather than Yale, is the great rival this year. "Columbia is the team to beat this year, and we're really looking forward to the match against them next Saturday," he said...
...Crimson batmen convincingly routed cross-town rival MIT yesterday in Harvard's home opener, derailing the Engineers...