Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his fox terrier Sweikof, Grutzius camped out in a circus wagon, sleeping on the floor (for all the furniture had been sold), scrounging food from local citizens who themselves were too poor to spare much. In the winter, the dwarf kept warm by getting drunk on harsh red wine, some of which he shared with Sweikof, and by burning dried grapevines in his stove...
Where Odets wanders is in his straining for gags and an over-reliance on Skulnik's complete mastery of inflection and gesture. Strangely, the play's main strength, a warm and jovial view of Noah's relationship with God, is too often stretched to the point of flippancy and slightly cheapens Skulnik's part, as well as the play as a whole. But this defect just puts The Flowering Peach a degree below superlative, it doesn't destroy its advanced merit. Berta Gerson, as Noah's wife, almost matches Skulnik's expertness, and Mario Alcalde should grow into...
...Mamie peered anxiously out of her window from time to time. The President, however, chatted quietly with his guest, British Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, and a group of golfing companions.* It was cloudy and cold when the Columbine III landed in Augusta, but Thanksgiving morning dawned clear and warm...
...Ernesto Halffter; Victor, 2 LPs). Written when he was nearly 30 (in 1905), this opera was chosen by Composer de Falla himself as his Op. 1. It starts as leisurely as a siesta, builds its tale of faithless love and sudden death (of a broken heart) to a warm climax. Soprano de los Angeles sings like a bird...
...Pastures, Redemption, most of the plays of Eugene O'Neill), he projected the thoughts of playwrights in vivid, interpretative settings which were "not pictures, but images," vigorously rejected the traditional idea of stage design as simple decoration. "A setting," he wrote, "is a presence, a mood, a great warm wind fanning the drama to flame...