Word: timeless
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...satellite. She is miscast, and downright dull, speaking in a disagreeable adolescent voice that fits Anne Frank perfectly, but adds little brightness to Anouilh. Fortunately, there are some extremely amusing supporting actors. Glenn Anders is ideal as the glorious Lord Hector, and Sig Arno serves his role as a timeless headwaiter with a skillful dash of farce...
...narrow choice of subject matter puzzles Morandi as much as anyone. "Perhaps," he says with a shrug, "the isolation in which I have found myself has led me to love solitary and silent things." Those qualities imbue his art. The timeless, table-top universe Morandi pictures may be as dry as the empty bottles that populate it, but it powerfully conveys-indeed, it creates-an atmosphere of isolation and profound quietude...
...instruments, or that it needs a strong beat, or that its heart is improvisation. To addicts weaned on driving, Basie-inspired rhythm sections, Jimmy's chamois-soft contrapuntal compositions sometimes do not sound like jazz at all. But the feeling is there-a folksy, blues-drenched feeling, timeless and distinct from the music of any other modern jazzman...
Then Kilmuir applied his text: "What we are seeing now in some parts of the world is, I am convinced, a spontaneous expression of that timeless longing, inseparable from the human condition, for justice, for the acceptance and fulfillment of the requirements of natural law, which recognizes that man is born to die and has but a little time to fulfill himself and to care for those to whom he is bound by ties of kinship and love...
...gregarious animal, enjoys a spectacle, and on momentous occasions likes to gather informally with his fellows. To satisfy this urge, densely packed cities have yielded up their most precious commodity-space-to create the great, timeless squares, piazze, places and Plätse. The best and most famous are the squares of Europe, handsome units of big-city living, often breathtakingly beautiful, exciting to walk through, and a breath of fresh air amidst the clutter of urban living. Against their splendid backdrops have unrolled many of the high moments of history. Through the centuries they have served as inspiration...