Word: vividly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...permit the return of Otto Habsburg, pretender to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and restore to him part of the family's nationalized fortunes. The Socialists have vehemently blocked Otto's reentry, to the vast relief of a great many Austrians who recall the empire with a vivid mixture of nostalgia and Angst. So powerful an issue is the long-dead monarchy that the campaign has even been enlivened by a Dusseldorf human-relations counselor, Dr. Theodor Rudolf Pachmann, who last month petitioned for recognition as the only legitimate heir of Emperor Franz Josef. His ground: that his father...
Where Pasolini fails, and it is a substantial failure, is in the inability to match his vivid re-creation of a place and time with an equally fresh portrait of Jesus. Christ sheds the mantle of soulful martyr but still seems no more than a fierce embodiment of divine purpose, as stiff and one-dimensional as those who have gone before. The movie sags at the center, weighed down by interminable closeups and sermons. The sound track swells with passages from Bach, Mozart, Prokofiev, Webern, an African Mass and-as an odd counterpoint to the Nativity-Odetta's recording...
HAYDN: THE CREATION (2 LPs; Decca). One of the last great works of the skeptical 18th century was this triumphant affirmation of Haydn's faith. Translated from the German and sung clearly in English, the oratorio will seem especially vivid to U.S. listeners because the music so closely fits the words. One hears the tawny lion roar, the insects swarm and the tiger leap for the first time on earth. Frederic Waldman conducts the Musica Aeterna Orchestra and Chorus, and Soprano Judith Raskin, as Gabriel, sings brilliantly, at times eclipsing her more earthbound fellow archangels, Tenor John McCollum...
...designed by Howard Bay, was hard to believe, but it worked. Two bizarrely carved pseudo-stone things hung above the stage and see-sawed back and forth at scene changes. They were a bit unnerving, but combined with Bay's vivid lighting and Conrad Susa's music they added to a ritualistic atmosphere that Carnovsky often exploited in his staging...
...abdomen and shortly thereafter undergo an ulcer operation only to discover that he has no ulcer, that in fact there isn't a doctor in Italy who can explain his symptoms, which nevertheless increase in severity and peculiarity, the pains accompanied more and more often by such vivid evidences of acute anxiety-colitis, exhaustion, "testicular commotion" and finally even the delusion of facing an "attack by crooked lines"-that in time the wretched man is persuaded to consult a psychoanalyst, an experience almost as painful for the hero as it is for the reader...