Word: tame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...century's wildest hurricanes turns tame over Texas...
Erwartung's nightmare ambiguities can have a haunting power. The Santa Fe production makes them rather tame, except in the astringent sonorities arising from the orchestra pit. Soprano Nancy Shade, as the woman, has command of Schoenberg's difficult idiom, but her voice lacks the dramatic weight for a role that, as Musicologist Wilfrid Mellers describes it, is essentially "Isolde in nervous disintegration...
While sitting in the ashes and donning my sackcloth, I am contemplating the achievements of mankind. We split the atom, we walked on the moon, we invented every imaginable destructive weapon of war. Now there is a new rumbling in our midst presenting a different challenge: How do we tame an angry mountain...
...Picasso was an able and gifted artist, but not yet a modern one. He had managed to tame the mannerism of the Blue Period, with its wistful elongations and neurotic passivity of form, by studying Degas. In the Woman with a Fan, 1905, with its "Egyptian" gesture of the raised hand and gravely extended fan, or in the robust columnar body of the Boy Leading a Horse, 1906, Picasso's digestion of Puvis was complete. At that point he could have kept painting such pictures for the rest of his life and died in honors...
...outcome, the Crimson owes no apologies for its final loss. Only a late third quarter burst allowed the home team, seeded second, to gain the edge needed to thwart the number seven Crimson, making its first-ever appearance in the playoffs, after drawing the tough assignment of trying to tame Hopkins on its own turf...