Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...given the impression that it is markedly open to influence by special interest groups. Legions of lobbyists for consumer groups and the oil and gas industry swarmed over the Senate while it was working on the energy bill. Nonetheless, Sidey concludes, this Congress actually is less receptive to old-style lobbying than its predecessors: "Back in the days when the big leaders used to roam the halls, lobbyists could find a man or two and work their deals. But today one cannot push buttons and get things done. The issues are so complex and interlocking that about the only...
...peak, the Sills coloratura was a rich, incredibly supple flute. The high notes do not come as effortlessly as they once did, but the voice is still basically secure, and Sills should have no trouble finishing her last seasons in high style. Her first big test comes this very week with Massenet's Thaïs at the Metropolitan Opera. It is a high lyric role ("Manon with no clothes on," says Sills), and its range is brutal: from below middle C to high D. The show is a loan of the same production Sills scored a success...
...doubt," she wrote in 1932, "that angels rush in before fools." She amplified this view on another occasion: "No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden." Her style was difficult and sometimes, in its defiance of syntax and even grammar, infuriating. In 1955 Punch effectively parodied the Bowen manner: "She lit the sodden stub of last night's fag and took a sip of gin and meth to cut, as she'd have put it, the phlegm." Bowen...
...case with Padre Padrone, the Italian television film that last spring became the first movie ever to win both the grand prize and the international critics' prize at the Cannes Festival. Padre Padrone has undeniable merits; it tells a fascinating true-life story in an innovative style. Yet somehow it never makes us care passionately about its people or its subject. Though there is reason to believe that this film will influence other films, many moviegoers may forget Padre Padrone as soon as they leave the theater...
...Tavianis' film-making techniques remain daring throughout, but Padre Padrone's style finally proves to be not only the movie's principal virtue but its undoing. The directors are too coldly rigorous in their efforts to remain aloof from the emotional content of their story: they place so large an intellectual distance between us and the characters that the gap becomes unbridgeable. That is why we admire Padre Padrone without being engaged by it, and care more about the filmmakers' achievements than we do about what happens to the hero. Like other such oddities as Resnais...