Word: trickyness
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The first act is tricky because it's slow--the serpent teaching Adam and Eve the meaning of death, hope and conception with little action and a lot of talk. Again--when you have Paradise as the scene the danger lies in seeming ponderous. Here the solution--as in, say...
Since the Watergate trials and tribulations of the Administration began dominating the news, there have been wide swings in public sentiment about President Nixon, his aides, Senate investigators and the press. Trying to measure public opinion can be tricky business, and this week scores of TIME reporters applied themselves to...
All the performers caught the tricky rhythm at the start of the cantata. This is important for a building of Mem Church's acoustics where the lack of echo mercilessly exposes poor ensemble. The opening chorus has a beautiful trumpet part. It was played with a smooth and searing quality...
To deal in illusion but not be dismissed as an illusionist is the nearly unsolvable problem of a writer like Julio Cortazar. For him the short story is the perfect form - a fine dazzle, then a quick curtain and nothing left but spots on the retina. But an entire collection...
In a Washington, D.C., recital recently, Brazilian Pianist Ney Salgado was negotiating the tricky rapids of Ravel's Alborado del Gracioso. Suddenly - oops! - several notes failed to sound. Salgado stopped in midpassage, rose and faced his astonished audience. A memory lapse? Finger cramps? Hardly. "The keys are stuck - I...