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...There are guttural sounds, snarls, nasalities, and a tendency to make every third line a climax. He seems to operate on a well-known theory; when in doubt, shout. There are better ways to convey pride, strength, and fearlessness. All this is regrettable, for Hotspur is penned as a virtuoso of language. I kept getting the impression that Walken was rehearsing for Stanley Kowalski and repeatedly wandered onto the wrong set. (The AST's 1962 mounting of this play had similar problems with a Hotspur played by Hal Holbrook...
DIED. William Primrose, 77, world's foremost viola virtuoso whose sweet, pure tone and musicianship raised the viola to the rank of the violin and cello as a solo instrument; in Provo, Utah. The Glasgow-born Primrose was a violin prodigy before he switched to the larger viola, with which he felt "a sense of oneness that I never felt when playing the violin." A world-touring solo recitalist, he settled in the U.S. in 1937 and became first viola of the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini. Later known for his performances of chamber music, he also worked with...
...19th century by Peto and Harnett, Shaw casts objects-playing cards, books, tin cans, ax handles-in porcelain and then glazes them into a more than photographic accuracy of surface. Sometimes, though not often enough, a flash of real poetry appears in the midst of Shaw's virtuoso pedantry. Moonlight Goose, 1978, with its loving simulations of flaking paint and marbled paper, attains a wistful charm almost worthy of Joseph Cornell...
...virtuoso performance. Exploiting the stunning election victory that made him TIME'S Man of the Year for 1980, Ronald Reagan launched a conservative counterrevolution, changing the direction of American government more drastically than any other President in half a century. Not even the bullet from a would-be assassin's gun that pierced his left lung on March 30 could slow his initial momentum...
...appearances on Capitol Hill. In fact, he was carefully hidden from public view in the office of Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker. Nonetheless, there was David Stockman doing what he does best, hunching over a desk in shirtsleeves to tap out spending estimates on a pocket calculator. His typically virtuoso performance may have saved...