Word: staringer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The major innovation was Ustinov's abandonment of the traditional setting of the opera-the brocaded and balconied court life of old Seville-in favor of a Goyaesque countryside vision of 18th century Spain. "Like Goya," said Ustinov, "Mozart had a fine sense of the intense dark and light...
IT WASN'T LONG after that before I fell in love. But I found soon enough that he was gay. And so sophisticated. Our first time out, he told me about his Oedipal complex, about how everybody he knew was in psychoanalysis, about how he spent his freshman year staring...
The opening moments of Memories are its finest. The credits flash over a kinetic, desperate dance sequence. The screen is crowded with faces; bodies whirl about to an African rhythm. There is, through all the noise and the music, the suggestion of a gunshot, and suddenly a lifeless body appears...
Berryman's final book of poems, Delusions, etc. points to this funny twist of Irony in his Belief. The book is mainly a series of daily prayers, some overwhelmingly joyous, many serious addresses to God. Only a few of these last poems are sad. But then there is the title...
While the announcer drones on about the minutes left to bet ("hurryhurryhurry" he says in a slurred voice), the hard-core lean over the fence, staring at the racing program. Every so often, they look up and stare blankly at the vacant track. As the race approaches, they wander off...