Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Springsteen plays most of the instruments on Tunnel of Love, with occasional help from the E Street Band. The album amounts to Springsteen's first truly personal statement. As the man himself puts it, "The road is dark/And it's a thin thin line/But I want you to know I...
Our idea of Zurbaran, as the art historian Yves Bottineau points out in the catalog, was fixed more than a century ago by the Romantics. His paintings of cowled monks and saints in meditation seemed to connect with spectacular areas of Romantic fantasy -- the dungeon beneath the cloister, the Grand...
The four movements--marked 'romantic', 'energetic', 'mysterious', and 'stormy'--exemplified the best characteristics of short piano repertoire, full of inspiration, yet never stifled by the brevity of the form. Within each short movement, the composer achieved a broad range of expression. His 'romantic' was romantic--resplendent in rolling arpeggios and...
Gather round, kids of all ages, as swashbuckling Westley (played by Cary Elwes, who looks like a young Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) sets out to rescue the impossibly beautiful Buttercup (Robin Wright) from a monarchy full of dastards. To do this, he will outduel the expert swordsman Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin...
Jablonski bolsters the romantic tale of the young composer brilliantly burning out before his time. But in this case the story is true, and the question of what Gershwin might have accomplished remains. As Kay Swift conjectures, "We'll never know, will we? But it would have been important."