Word: warmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MINOR (Seraphim). Taped from a 1948 broadcast, this is a performance by Dinu Lipatti, the fabled Rumanian pianist who died of Hodgkin's disease at 33. The concerto gives no hint of the sweep and virility Lipatti was capable of, but reveals his lyrical side, warm and magically sustained. The sound is a bit dim, and one seems to be listening by moonlight...
...which was fine by Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, 58, who cheered: "This is one of the nicest I've been to." Alas, Fowler felt constrained to sit out the frugs and watusis. Remember those undignified pictures they took last February when he did a warm frug at a party with Carol Channing? "I'm just like Lindbergh," sighed Fowler. "Made one flight, became famous and quit...
...occasionally trapped over the basin and form into a stationary dome of high-pressure air. Two or three days later, when the enormous dome collapses, its great mass of air begins moving toward nearby low-pressure areas. Blocked by the towering walls of the Rockies and the Sierra, the warm, dry air heads southwestward toward the group of lower mountain ranges that stand between it and a low-pressure trough hovering over Southern California...
...grabbed the Big Knob" in combat over Korea, and then merrily marries the girl before his rival can edit the obit. Scott in reprisal busts up the formation again. Tony is shipped off to arctic survival school, where the poor twerp shaves in leftover coffee, sleeps with a nice warm sled dog and sits miserably slurping puree of blubber in the path of a polar blizzard. Scott meanwhile reclines contentedly (though temporarily) in the soft white arms of Tony's missus, who comfily explains: "I've always wanted two of everything...
...were as intelligent as he is theatrically gifted. After his stagecraft enchants and grips you, you're left with the truisms and slightly awry profundity of his philosophy. He converts the theatre into a sympathetic, subtle medium and then ignores its potential to sermonize. But his humor is so warm, and his juggling of conventions so hypnotic, that you're a hundred steps out of the theatre before you realize you've been hoodwinked into sentimentality...