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...real program opened inauspiciously with the introduction of Mozart's Symphony No. 39 in E flat sounding tentative and timid. Perhaps Stulberg intended to set off the later robust sections of the movement with his restrained opening, but he drew a sound more anemic than richly resonant. During this section, moving lines in the lower strings were buried by enthusiastic violins. In the slower second movement, the group seemed to recover from its weak start as Stulberg set an easy pace for the almost religious lyrical passages that followed. He allowed the audience to revel in Mozart's rich, melancholy...

Author: By Audrey H. Ingber, | Title: All's Well That Ends Well | 5/4/1976 | See Source »

...arrival in London for the stage musical I Do! I Do! Hudson, who opened last week with Singer-Dancer Juliet Prowse in the two-character marital spoof, should have kept the screamer locked within. The London Sun found Rock's singing so far off-key as to make "timid dogs sit on their haunches and howl at the moon." As for his hoofing ability, the paper's critic was relieved to find that Prowse "is fast enough on her feet to prevent any damage to her toes when Rock is called on to do an occasional, stiff-backed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 2, 1976 | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

...Birds: A Dialogue," is a sarcastic, earthy blast against what Chinese editorials have long called the "goulash Communism" of the Soviet Union. It depicts a conversation between two birds, one a giant roc that soars over the earth, with "the blue sky on its back," and the other a timid sparrow "scared stiff" in his bush. The world is in chaos ("Gunfire licks the heavens,/ Shells pit the earth"), and the sparrow wants to escape to "a jeweled palace in Elfland's hills." The roc replies angrily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Reaching for the Clouds | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...lecturer, is most convincing with small groups, and tended at the outset of the campaign to avoid speaking before big crowds. Stocky, abrasive Muldoon is a cost accountant with a pugnacious political style that proved to be a powerful attraction on the campaign trail. Muldoon criticized Rowling as "too timid and too tentative" to be Prime Minister. Although New Zealand is not exactly beset by a crime wave, Muldoon promised law-and-order government. He also attacked Labor's economic record-inflation has risen from 5.5% in 1972 to 14.8% this year-and accused the government of mortgaging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Looking into Mirrors | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

...oblivious to the start and finish of the film they'll happen on. Mostly men buy 300 passes to the triple-X-rated features each day. These movies are made for men, she says. They realize that she knows what they plan on doing in there, and they're timid. A few Orientals brush by with their hands shoved stiffly into their pockets. They probably came down Beach St. from China Town...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: A Zone for Tremulous Flanks | 11/20/1975 | See Source »

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