Word: texts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carrillo's U.S. visit climaxes a series of image-building junkets. In Moscow for the 60th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, he got a much publicized snub from the Kremlin leaders, who decided-after looking at his prepared text-that they could not fit him into the speaking schedule. This only burnished his sought-after image of independence. Said one diplomat in Madrid: "The Russians were booby-trapped. Carrillo came out looking like a stalwart democrat...
...final work, Ralph Vaughan Williams's "Serenade to Music," the Bach Society was joined by the Harvard University Choir. Written to a Shakespeare text in 1938, the serenade fortunately has become a gem of the choral repertoire, a consummately felicitous welding of poetry and music. The Bach Society's performance was truly gorgeous--all moonlight and velvet shadow. The chorus blended into a cool wave of sound, plumbing the music's dreamy depths without sacrificing a sparkling diction. The soloists, particularly soprano Ellen Burkhardt, were uniformly fine. The orchestra matched them in ethereal luster as a glossy violin solo...
...last week a retrospective of 201 paintings, drawings, multiples and prints by Jasper Johns opened at New York's Whitney Museum. Curator David Whitney, a former assistant to Johns, put the retrospective together; the West Coast science-fiction writer Michael Crichton (The Andromeda Strain) supplied a catalogue text. It is, of course, a fascinating show; but the painter who rises from it is not the Leonardesque genius we have all been conditioned to expect...
...original stage script as is, to the point of having characters address monologues directly to the camera. The play's gory climax-the blinding of six horses-is rendered realistically, not mimed as it was onstage. Rather than enhance Equus, Lumet's fidelity to the text accentuates every flaw...
...Geneva that he and the American leaders had accepted. The Foreign Minister was defending himself against opposition charges that he had knuckled under to Washington's pressure by tacitly accepting a Palestine Liberation Organization presence at Geneva. As proof to the contrary, he read out an official text of the hitherto secret agreement. Dayan's disclosures about his conversa tions with Carter and Vance indicated that the U.S.-Israeli relationship was still badly strained. In addition, there was more than a reasonable doubt that Arab leaders, who are now studying the working paper, could accept...