Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resembling a sleeping Jesus, a popular bumper sticker declares, THERE ISN'T MUCH TO SEE IN A SMALL TOWN, BUT YOU SURE DO HEAR A LOT. And the place in Livingston where you mostly hear it--rumors about layoffs at the lumber mill, fishing reports on the nearby Yellowstone River--is the downtown post office. The 1914 beaux arts sandstone edifice, surrounded by coffee shops, saddleries and movie theaters that have survived the town's trend toward franchised sprawl, is a kind of communal hitching post...
Billy Bob... ...was in Indecent Proposal, with Robert Redford Robert Redford directed Quiz Show, with Ralph Fiennes Robert Redford directed A River Runs Through It, with Brenda Blethyn...
...fairness, I can see where Guinness is coming from. He has had a truly remarkable film career, and was already a much admired star when Star Wars was not even a gleam in Lucas's eye. His portrayal of Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai, for which he was awarded a Best Actor Oscar, stands as one of the truly great performances in cinema, and his work in films as diverse as Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and Cromwell (a personal favorite) is outstanding. But in my mind's eye he will always be dueling Darth Vader...
...program was sponsored by the Quad Bible Society, Veritas Forum, River Bible Study, Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship, and Graduate School Christian Fellowship...
...Fall River Legend," the opening piece, is an adaptation of Morton Gould's full score for the Agnes DeMille ballet about Lizzie Borden, the same one who "took an ax" and "gave her parents forty whacks." Thought it calls for fewer than 20 performers, it requires them to sound like many more. This illusion succeeded best in the fanciful second movement, "Waltzes" and the "Elegy" that follows, a piece that itself could secure for its creator a reputation as one of America's greatest tonal composers. Previn and his temporarily reduced company made it not only a focused meditation...