Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Later he organized the Federal Alliance of Free City States, laying claim to Spanish land grants covering 35 million acres in New Mexico, 72 million in Arizona. 400 million in Texas, 698 million in California. But it was chiefly in Rio Arriba that Tijerina helped launch a campaign of terror...
...crucial moment, the young man loses his chance for infamous glory as a hundred assassins gun down the President in a communal murder. Despite its grisly theme, the play is acridly funny in its satire of a society that, in the playwright's view, is teetering toward terror, anarchy and nihilism...
...what of music that Berlioz is interested in, not the how," explains Davis. "He appeals to me because of his mixture of ferocity and tenderness. And by ferocity I don't mean bloodthirstiness. I mean voltage, energy, fire. I love the explosions, the wildness, the terror in his music. There are very few composers who manage to generate terror. Berlioz really does. He can frighten...
...point, Davis is currently engaged in a Berlioz bash during a four-week guest stand with the New York Philharmonic at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. At the opening concert, devoted entirely to Berlioz works, the audience clearly got the idea of what Davis means by voltage and terror. The first composition was the overture to Les Francs-Juges, an unfinished opera about the secret vigilante courts that terrorized Germany in the Middle Ages. The overture, as Davis says, "has a sort of white-hot energy. In the middle there is the most pathetic, square melody that is savaged...
...ordinary Albert without his customary flip mannerisms. And as the monster within the skin, he is something else. Under orders from some burning sector of his mind, he hysterically re-enacts one killing by wrapping his hands around an imaginary girl's windpipe. Hovering between pathos and terror, Curtis suddenly makes the viewer's breath stop in his own throat - and incidentally gives a glimpse of the picture that got lost somewhere between Boston and Hollywood...