Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Musically, the song is a mixture of the burbling sighs and grunts of "Hello-Goodbye" (one magnificent nasal intake of breath after the line 'Remember to let her other lines from pervious verses) and the wavering, broad-based melody punctuated by Ringo's superb stabbing drums of 'All You Need Is Love...
S.O.M.'s impressive depth in talent has captured superb commissions. The firm now has $750 million worth of building under construction, including Dallas' Main Place office complex, the home office of the Georgia-Pacific Corp. in Portland, Ore., and the Art and Architecture building at the University of Illinois' Chicago Circle Campus?and there is another $1.2 billion of projects on the drafting boards. To each job S.O.M. will bring its proven methodology. Explains Owings: "You first ask if the building is needed or if it is possible to save the old one. Then you ask where it should...
Henry started his reign in 1509 as a handsome, strapping 17-year-old, seemingly the perfect embodiment of the chivalric tradition. A superb sportsman and a gifted musician, he also could hold his own intellectually in company with those lights of Renaissance humanism, Erasmus and Thomas More. Yet he grew into a gross, willful creature not so far removed from the modern layman's view of him, which seems to be based mainly on Charles Laughton's famous roaring, slobbering portrayal in the 1933 film The Private Life of Henry VIII. He gorged himself at seven-hour banquets...
...bits and pieces of Artaud and Grand Guignol. The set, grotesque caryatids awesomely conceived and executed by Sebastian Melmoth, nonetheless serves little intrinsic function in Ginn's concept, appearing only as so much lavish decoration surrounding the playing area. The costumes and lighting, however, work better, and are superb as only the Loeb can make them...
Following a short intermission, all six musicians reappeared on the stage, divested of jackets and ties. Their new-found comfort and relief was reflected in a superb performance of Shubert's Cello Quintet. The piece requires a back and forth interplay of plucking between the violin and cello. This was done in such a way as to give the listener the impression of a teasing, question and answer conversation between the two instruments. Not once did the piece move slowly or the sound lose its rich quality. In the Allegretto especially, the opening theme was brought back with force...