Word: sidney
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Rorem's new oratorio, based on texts by Poe, Longfellow, Twain, Crane, Melville, Whitman, Emma Lazarus and Sidney Lanier, is one of four premieres this season for the prolific composer, and it too treads familiar ground. Best known for his art songs and his candid, elegantly written diaries recounting his life and loves in Paris, New York and elsewhere, the composer, 61, has long been a conservative voice in American music. He speaks in a basically breezy 1940s tonality, which is leavened by a few more recent technical advances. In An American Oratorio, Rorem's style works effectively with gentle...
Events of the winter have conspired once again to bring the plight of the Cambodians to Western attention. Here at home, a new movie. "The Killing Fields," tells the harrowing story of the friendship between New York Times correspondent Sidney Schanberg and his Cambodian assistant, Dith Pran, who was separated from his friend when the country fell in 1975 and who through his wits and luck survived through the three bloody years of Khmer Rouge rule that ensued...
...chose to cut between Pran's privations and Schanberg's searching's, contrasting the objective desperation of Pran's position with the psychological desperation of Schanberg's guilt. But since Pran was not allowed to talk and independent thought was considered a crime, Joffe uses voice overs, mental "Dear Sidney" letters to expose the action and Pran's reaction. The technique backfires, and they might have been better off leaving off the whole section in Cambodian. A more intelligent solution would have been to use subtitles, letting the vicious regimentation of the Khmer Rouge speak for itself...
DeMatha alumni include Maryland's Adrian Branch, North Carolina State. Sidney Lowe and Dereck Whittenberg, and a host of hoop gods who have gone on to bigger and only slightly better things...
...search for the elusive almost mythical Garbo comprises the plot for Garbo Talks, a new film by director Sidney Lumet. Unfortunately it's not the fiesty Bancroft who embarks on the search, but instead her son, played by Ron Silver, whose screen presence can be likened to a lost beagle. All the time he is on the screen, which is all too often, Silver seems to get lost in Lumet's white washed urban setting. Only when Bancroft appears does Garbo Talks regain its force and almost all of it's humor...