Word: vibrant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Birgit Nilsson: Opera Arias (Angel). In her first American release, rising Swedish Soprano Nilsson sings selections from Wagner and Verdi in a big, flashing, vibrant voice long on power and drive, sometimes short on dramatic intensity...
...first-rate pickup group. But he kindled a performance of ravishing warmth and coloration, better by far than anything previously heard from the Lyric Opera's pit. With Soprano Birgit Nilsson as Isolde, Tenor Karl Liebl as Tristan, and Mezzo Grace Hoffman as Brangaene, Rodzinski shaped a youthfully vibrant production, as remarkable for its knotted dramatic tensions as it was for its moments of shadowed repose...
Huston's direction is real artistry. The Italian scenes were all shot in that vibrant natural light Huston manages to record. Every shot is composed with the care and sense of proportion found in a good salon still. The film as a whole is a good-natured and beautifully turned-out joke, a string of very funny, often non-sequitur, sequences...
...drab is a girl named Hilda, and the dim is a boy named Eustace. Their family name is Cherrington, and they start out in a modest, money-haunted, middle-class way during that long Saturday afternoon-the sunlit late-Edwardian, early-Georgian period. Hilda is vibrant and dry-adlike-the sort of girl most men cannot stay away from, but should. Eustace cannot, which is particularly unfortunate since they are brother and sister. So an overstuffed couch of near incest trundles along through two decades. In Novel No. 1, entitled The Shrimp and the Anemone (Eustace, of course...
LONG the main clients of modern architects, U.S. corporations are slowly becoming major patrons of modern art. One of the most successful examples of art for industry-result of the joint efforts of artist, architect and industrialist-is a vibrant, 8-ft. by 17-ft. mural unveiled this week in the lobby of H. J. Heinz Co.'s new $4,500,000 Research Center in Pittsburgh. From the start,recalls Gordon Bunshaft, design partner of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the lobby was planned for a specific kind of painting: "Brick going in on two sides, Mies van der Rohe chairs...