Word: unevennesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...generally within a few dollars of each other and the consumer often goes through a series of agonizing and conflicting measures to decide between them. But this year the consumer might come out best by simply letting the market decide because the discounts for similar models are highly uneven...
Despite its reputation as a stable for opera's cavalry, the Metropolitan Opera does, of course, produce works that are new or outside the standard repertory. The results are uneven. This season has already seen an unfortunate production of Benjamin Britten's Death in Venice, an attenuated musical rumination exquisitely ill-suited to a house of the Met's proportions. Last week the company used its resources to far better effect. It revived Czech Composer Leos Janáček's Jenufa, last heard at the Met 50 years ago in a production starring Maria Jeritza...
...happen? Not at all, according to a comprehensive survey being released this week by Boston University's Center for Criminal Justice. The five-volume report, product of an 18-month study of nine sample cities, concludes: "Compliance has generally been token in nature," reform "has been chaotic and uneven at best," and the assurance of legal representation remains "an empty right for many defendants...
...worst thing that can be said about this production is that it is uneven, a fault again largely due to the book, but nevertheless one which the directors seem to have been unable to overcome. They are at their strongest in the satiric scenes--"Little Tin Box" is terrific burlesque and the high point of the evening--and the blocking is clever where it really counts, as in the opening number. But they disappoint whenever a little tenderness is called...
...world. Last week the reigning ballerina of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet headed a group of touring stars from the company in a week-long engagement at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Shrewdly, the management announced in advance that she would dance at every performance; otherwise, seeing this uneven cadre of Bolshoiviks -actually, they constitute less than one-third of the entire troupe-without her would be as interesting as watching the New York Jets without Joe Namath...