Word: transylvanian
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...late. The entire production is bogged down and almost destroyed by being presented as a reading, either because of lack of rehearsal time or because the magical effects were simply too difficult. The actors had trouble acting and reading at the same time, and Maideg Bouchery was simply too Transylvanian to be believed...
Photographer Nina Leen and Physiologist Alvin Novick have freed the oat from the ignominy of Dore infernos and Transylvanian castles. Myths and tears concerning these shy nocturnal mammals are gently and gracefully blown away with the turning of each page in this unique contribution to the literature of natural history...
...studied with Fernand Léger in Paris and brushed elbow patches with artists whose works he was to fake in years to come. Life was an amusement that ended abruptly with World War II. Totally apolitical, Elmyr was nevertheless shipped off to a Transylvanian concentration camp. "I was," he says with Magyar flair, "obviously too colorful a person for the safety of the state." He survived the Carpathian winter by painting the commandant's portrait-very slowly...
...about The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck. Alleging that his U.S. producers cut 19 minutes of footage and otherwise tampered with his handiwork, he sputters: "What I made was a funny, spook fairy tale, and this is a sort of Transylvanian Beverly Hillbillies...
...pieces like the suite from his bright, good-humored opera Háry János became concert-hall staples. His life's output was remarkable for its uniform excellence; his unabashedly melodic First Symphony, for example, written when he was 79, evokes the same atmosphere of Transylvanian winterscapes and shepherd's watch fires on the puszta as his earlier works...