Word: till
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swelling chorus that any director would snap up for a Biblical movie epic passed into a hot-gospeling rendition of Psalm 100 ("Make a joyful noise unto the Lord"). Psalm 23 ("The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want") was a pastoral solo sung by a boy alto till the chorus interrupted with "Why do the nations rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?" The third and finest section of Bernstein's 18½-minute work interweaves Psalm 131 through a simple canon to a pianissimo "Amen...
...narrow Renaissance windows; artists and audience are on first-name terms within hours. After dusk, international jet setters in white dinner jackets brush shoulders with gaping locals in sweatshirts at the superheated discothéque. Then it is on to a 16th century vaulted cellar that serves cannelloni till dawn...
...locked into it information concerning her period of probable fertility. At the beginning of each menstrual cycle, she merely sets the dial in the warning window to "1," then keeps an eye peeled on the window, which automatically turns red on the first day of probable fertility, remains red till the last...
...backwards-fast. And a cutting horse named Bosley Blue, who could handle 1,500 head of cattle without a rider to direct him, once grabbed the tail of a raging steer in his teeth, flipped the brute on his back, then calmly sat on top of him till he sizzled down...
...frustration. He murdered two other young stallions, fought off a dozen men with rawhide lariats, climbed over a seven-foot fence, smashed through a barrier of logs, charged into the open prairie, met up with eight horses, slaughtered them all-and went right on slaughtering his own kind. Till the day he died he was a four-footed psychopath...