Word: sunsetting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...France's Claude Debussy, Germany's Richard Wagner was "that old poisoner" of the pure wells of music. In the 1890's, fuming at the "grandiloquent hysteria" of the Wagnerian heroes-and calling his predecessor "a beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn"-Debussy, singlehanded, set about creating a new anti-Wagnerian style. The result was the only opera he ever finished, Pelléas et Mélisande. Based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck, it had a shadowy, once-upon-a-time plot that actually bore a genteel resemblance to Wagner's Tristan...
...Vikings, a drinking society, meets at a Sunset Strip restaurant, numbers among its members Victor Borge, Lauritz Melchior, Michael Wilding. The Vikings wear horned helmets and bearskin robes, and on special occasions blow an ancient Bavarian mountain horn. Their motto: "Work is the ruin of the drinking classes...
...predecessors, the film devotes considerable footage to sweeping shots of the varied flora and fauna of Kenya and Tanganyika. Unfortunately, even a panoramic screen and stereophonic sound cannot destroy the feeling of having seen all this before. Leaping gazelles, prowling lions, and flamingos rising against an orange African sunset are getting just a little commonplace...
Cavalcade of America (Tues. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Sunset at Appomattox-General Robert E. Lee's surrender...
...Groaner Bing Crosby was back for his 22nd radio season, but the blue of the night was no longer meeting the gold of the day. While lazing about his Nevada ranch this summer, he had got to thinking about his sunset theme (which he helped compose a quarter of a century ago), decided his public must be as bored with it as he is. Bing put The Blue of the Night to pasture, ordered a new instrumental piece to take its place on the Crosby show. Its tentative title: "Bing's Theme...