Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SATIE: PIANO MUSIC, VOL. 3 (Angel). Debussy called Erik Satie "a sweet medieval musician who wandered into this century." He made a living playing the piano in the bars of Montmartre, drank with Duchamp, Man Ray and the other Dadaists, and wrote breezy little avant-garde compositions. With their whimsical titles (The War Song of the King of the Beans, Waltz of the Chocolate with Almonds) and seemingly random harmonies, they are surprisingly fresh after 50 years. Much of the credit for the exuberant mood of this record goes to Aldo Ciccolini, who plays with such easy mastery that...
Western experts have assembled four theories to explain why Russia chose the violent tactic now. One possibility is that the Soviets never considered seriously any other solution to the Czechoslovak problem. The sweet reasonableness at Cierna was all a feint. They could also have come to Cierna in the hope of finding-and aiding-a rebellious rump group in Dubcek's party leadership, and failed. Or they might have decided, after watching post-Cierna Czechoslovakia, that Dubcek simply could not or did not want to deliver on their demands of holding down his reforms. Finally, the invasion could have...
...Rossella Falk, whose slinky version of a dope-shooting dyke is the best bit in the film. Director Robert Aldrich, who cut close to the Hollywood bone 13 years ago with The Big Knife, moved on to more forthright mayhem with What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Hush . . . Hush Sweet Charlotte and The Dirty Dozen. Even in this company, Lylah Clare doesn't make...
...BRIDE WORE BLACK. Revenge is sweet, bitter, salty and sour in Francois Truffaut's poetic evocation of an idee fixe. Jeanne Moreau is the woman with the idee, and the men who killed her husband are the ones who get fixed in a series of alternately comic and eerie murders...
...Whiskered Bulbul, a crested Asian visitor freed from a rare-bird farm by a hurricane ten years ago, has begun to multiply. To the alarm of local growers, it has a marked preference for sweet, ripe fruit...