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...illusion, play-goers not only see a man guillotined but watch his head fall into a basket. To conclude this opening maelstrom of mayhem, Dr. Frankenstein opens the coffin of a dying girl for an operation to remove her beating heart and thus begin his monster. The spectacle is vivid enough to sicken some audiences, but Alan Brien, drama critic of London's Sunday Telegraph, insists that "the sequence is an eyeopener to those who believe the theater cannot match the cinema in projecting images of violence and pain...
...view of the purges recently published in the U.S. But since Mrs. Ginzburg's book is a work of nonfiction, an intensely personal and passionately felt document in which every syllable clangors with awful authenticity, it is as affecting as an anguished letter from a friend, as morbidly vivid in its details as a neighbor's report of a harrowing automobile accident just down the road...
...Esterház (in eastern Austria), Haydn created operas, symphonies and chamber works whose freshness remains remarkably vivid. The Prince gave him a crack orchestra, and Haydn taught it a dramatic musical vocabulary unknown before his time. When it pleased him, he would begin a symphony (Nos. 22, 49) with a long slow movement instead of the expected brilliant allegro. Some of his effects were comic: in the finale of Symphony No. 60, the violins are asked to mistune their lowest string from G down to F, then pause in mock horror and raucously retune. At the end of Symphony...
Inexpensive ($12 to $25) and frankly for show, they are worn on the wrist with wide vinyl bands in vivid electric colors, dangle from necklaces or belts, even come as adjustable rings to be worn on the finger. Nor is their appeal only to the young. Rose Kennedy, Carol Channing, Oveta Gulp Hobby and Mary Lasker all sport them. Lord Snowdon owns several, including a big black one to harmonize with his evening clothes. The Beatles' Ringo Starr threads his on a velvet ribbon and drapes it around his neck...
...fault, in all fairness, is not his. His settings are as novelistically vivid as ever. The action is brisk: scenes from the War of 1812 as a curtain rais er; no-quarter combat with pirates in Caribbean and African waters; amphibious derring-do during the Mexican War; for a climax, the Commodore's steaming into Edo Bay and dramatically opening Japan to the West...