Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kremlin, by David Douglas Duncan. A superb photographic study...
...Kremlin, by David Douglas Duncan. A superb photographic study...
...dines with dukes and will not let down the class he aspires to. There is icily detached Arthur Brown, who is burning to be the next master of Oxbridge and wants to smother all controversy for fear of irking potential supporters. There is Nightingale, a man with a superb war record but an indifferent academic past who may have suppressed evidence out of gratitude for being made bursar. Justice, as Snow delights in proving, is a lady who wears more than one blindfold...
...first-rate cast under Conductor Peter Herman Adler, Bass Cesare Siepi was superb as the don, his voice smooth and resonant, his acting a marvel of revealing, reflex-quick responses to the camera's eye. In one of the opera's musical high points, the Act I love duet of Giovanni and Zerlina (Soprano Judith Raskin), Siepi gave his mahogany tones a range of inflections-ardor, indignation, surprise-that told the viewer in the twist of a phrase everything about the don he needed to know. Less effective than Siepi dramatically, Negro Soprano Leontyne Price sang the role...
...crown is an iridescent fountain of bubbling jewels. Diamonds spill and shimmer like droplets of moonlight. At its pinnacle, a huge, rough-cut ruby stares like an evil red eye. The diamond crown of Peter the Great is one of 80-odd superb photographic still lifes of the Kremlin's quasi-barbaric, Byzantine splendors, caught with eloquent precision by David Douglas Duncan's camera. This glittering hoard-jeweled scepters and prayer books, imperial gowns and priestly vestments, carriages and thrones-was buried art treasure until Duncan wangled Khrushchev's permission in 1956 to roam the Kremlin...