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Word: splashing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be unfortunate to saddle this delightful production with a top-heavy moral. As in The Madwoman of Chaillot and The Trojan War will Not Take place, Giraudouz rejects a serious plane for the freedom of fantasy. Ondine is a splash of brilliant costumes (Richard Whorf) and imaginative sets (Peter Larkin). The appearance of such characters as three Loreli-type sprites and a walking replica of Venus de Milo break into the narrative to keep the lively pace...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Ondine | 2/4/1954 | See Source »

...life, flunked out as a junior college music major. He taught himself the trumpet in junior high school when he wanted to join the band, later played in Army bands in Berlin and San Francisco. He played with a few California combos before he made his big splash with Gerry Mulligan's quartet in 1952 (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Listen to Those Zsounds | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

Leslie Stevens' Bullfight proved to be a colorful splash of fiery vignettes, effectively backed by clever lighting, a ballet-drilled cast, exotic . costumes, and an ominous musical background of Spanish guitars. The story concerns two brothers of a proud Mexican family-one an eager young beginner in the bull ring, the other a has-been turned thug and procurer. A victim of his own bitterness, the elder brother (well played by Cinemactor Kurd Hatfield) ruins everyone around him, rapes his sister-in-law (Loretta Leversee), and even accidentally causes his younger brother's death in the ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Off Broadway | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

Here & there last week, a chapter was added to stories that had already made their splash in the news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: Added Chapters | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

Krenek: Piano Sonata No. 4 (Bernhard Abramowitsch; Music Library). A vintage 1948 work by a composer who made a worldwide splash with his opera, Jonny Spielt Auf, written in a kind of Teutonic honky-tonk style a quarter century ago. The sonata, sometimes using the twelve-tone technique, is full of ultramodern patterns, but they are served up in comparatively palatable form: there are moments of humor, drama and bewitchingly strange sounds. Pianist Abramowitsch plays it with skill and enthusiasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Classical Records | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

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