Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...task of impersonating one of the most complex, heroic and appealing roles in opera. The latest soprano in the noble line of Normas is blonde Greek-Argentine Elena Suliotis, 25, who makes the role's demands sound like a cinch. But to entice those who already own the superb Callas Norma, or Sutherland's less successful try, London has reduced this album's price by cutting the score. Yet quality prevails. Everyone involved-from engineers to Conductor Silvio Varviso-has outdone himself...
...Lichtenstein's cover drawing of Robert Kennedy, the New York Senator from Massachusetts, was superb. It provided an at-a-glance character analysis: colorful, comic, callow and caustic...
Filling the gap left by King is no easy task. King was not only a superb orator, but he also had credentials-such as the Nobel Prize-that impressed the white power structure. Though Abernathy's assets are far less gilt-edged and his speaking style retains brimstone Baptist elements, he grows more sophisticated as he emerges from the comparative obscurity in which he lived under King. Says Mrs. Abernathy: "I guess you could have called him the man in the shadow...
RESIDENTIAL COLLEGES. One of the functions of a residential college is to emancipate the young from the inevitable limitations of their home and neighborhood before it is too late. Even a superb academic program is unlikely to move most students very far if they return every night to home and mother...
...natural light sources and location sets. A ubiquitous sunlight links the interiors to the outdoor shots much better than Demy's style is able to do and, as in his Lola and Baie des Anges, shines brightly through the entire film. Demy's style is a strange hybrid. The superb interiors owe much to Godard (Une Femme Est Une Femme, Le Mepris, Pierrot le Fou) and succeed in filling the cinemascope screen with inventive precision; on the other hand, the exteriors are derivative of American films (with shots lifted from Stanley Donen's Singing In The Rain and Nicholas...