Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yannatos showed further short-sightedness when he rotated the instrumentalists within his wind section--an extraordinary policy which resulted in a superb flute performance in Stravinsky's Petrushka and then abysmal, brittle, out-of-tune music from the flutes and oboes in the Dvorak. The sloppy wind performance in the cello concerto obscured a strong effort by the strings to match at least partially the virtuosity of Starker...
...from sprouted wheat kernels, and cultivating vegetables alongside the marijuana. His daily needs are basic and so, too, is his plumbing-an outhouse that curiously has room for five. His shower is little more than a wooden platform, pipe, and flash heater. No impulsive sort, he spent months contemplating wind, fog and sun patterns on his 2½-acre plot before breaking ground. "If you have to spend time in a house, you might as well live in an environment that expands your mind the most," he explains. In fact, to ensure an expansive vista, he built 23 windows into...
...formula requires three ingredients: an exotic setting (Rome, the Caribbean, Africa), a demure heroine whose modest station in life is similar to the reader's, and a usually rich, arrogant hero who initially patronizes the heroine, then sweeps her off her feet "like a leaf in the wind" into a blissful, totally unLiberated marriage. Curses never go beyond an impetuous hero's "God's teeth!" ("What a shocking remark!" exclaims the heroine.) Sex never gets further than a kiss, but manages to crop up in perfervid abundance anyway. (Flushed heroines protest...
...another twenty minutes before Brown took another point from the hard-working Crimson defense. This time, when Kiernan came out away from the net for a save, he missed the ball completely, stopping a Brown player's foot instead of a ball. He had the wind knocked out of him, but decided to continue playing...
Screenwriter-Novelist Gavin Lambert tells this short history of Gone With the Wind in a level, intelligent prose that contrasts nicely with his extravagant subject. He concentrates upon Selznick, an obsessive perfectionist who brought off the film in spite of the collective industry opinion that regarded it as "Selznick's Folly." Sometimes his conferences would last 48 hours, nonstop. He went through four directors and scriptwriters like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ben Hecht. When the Screen Extras Guild produced only 1,500 bodies to represent the Confederate wounded at the Atlanta Railroad Station, Selznick violated union rules by ordering...