Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Minton, Tenor Stuart Burrows, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis, conductor; Philips; 3 LPs). Mozart composed Mitridate when he was only 14; La Clemenza came just before he died at 35. Both works are all but forgotten. They are opera seria, the early style of Italian opera that can present obstacles for the modern listener: dry recitatives, stiff action, mezzos singing male roles. But there is splendid music here, and even some good drama. Arleen Augér pours out brilliant coloratura cascades in Mitridate as the old King's fianc...
...first, archaeologists thought that the find was related to a 6th century A.D. building, similar in structure, at nearby Doon Hill, in East Lothian. But radiocarbon dating of the wood at Balbridie Farm indicates that the timber was felled as long ago as 4000 B.C. The composition and style of pottery shards found in one of the pestholes are characteristic of that time. Thus the hall was apparently built at least 1,000 years before Stonehenge, and is several centuries older than a small timber hutch in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, that has until now been regarded as the most...
...badly charred. But enough evidence remains to show that the structure was 24 meters (78 ft.) long, 12 meters (39 ft.) wide and covered by a roof that rose some 9 meters (30 ft.) above the ground. It had such distinctive architectural details as bowed end walls, a building style usually associated with structures of the Dark Ages. Just as remarkable, the diggers turned up traces of barley seed, which indicate that the Neolithic builders were skilled agriculturists and perhaps even had domesticated farm animals...
...Keystone Kop to Jimmy Carter in the throes of a scatological tantrum. No one is safe from Sorel: he skewers Arabs and Zionists, harpoons Cardinal Cooke and Billy Graham, lampoons the Jerry Lewis telethon: "Maybe some day science will find a cure for Multiple No-Talent." Sorel's style is best when it reveals the foibles of its subject graphically: Gloria Steinem as a knight in tarnished amour, Scoop Jackson as a sheriff with a beltful of missiles, Woody Allen as Satan. His critiques of the Watergaters lean too heavily on the obscene- but then so did the malefactors...
GREAT MOMENTS IN ARCHITECTURE by David Macaulay Houghton Mifflin; $11.95 After Sorel's frontal assaults, David Macaulay's Great Moments in Architecture seems gentility itself. But within its spiderweb style, a donnish whimsy examines the excesses of this and other centuries and finds them wanton. Archaeologists uncover the ruins of a rudimentary civilization: a partially excavated fast-food restaurant with the French fries still intact. An inflatable cathedral is invented for tourists who want a distinguished setting at a moment's notice. The secret of the Pyramids is revealed: the ancient Egyptians wanted to sharpen their giant...