Word: windedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until this concluding scene, which is gravely serious as the man faces looming extinction, much of the action and many of the lines of "The Empire Builders" are foolish but amusing: foolish as the father tells long-winded stories, or acts out some of his memories of the past; or...
What happens before the last moments of director Joseph Timko's adaption of Adolpho Bioy Casares' story makes very little sense. Eight bizarre people, vacationing on an otherwise abandoned island, stand around for six out of eight scenes before letting us know what's doing. Self-consciously they sip drinks...
In conducting, said Richard Strauss, "the first two beats come from God, but then it gets difficult." Prospective conductors who want to learn the difficult part have been gathering in Vienna for 22 years to study with a bushy-browed, long-winded dogmatist named Hans Swarowsky. The world's...
Secret Report. The charges grew out of a long-winded report delivered before the Central Committee by Raúl Castro, Fidel's brother and the chief of Cuba's armed forces and internal security. Named as the conspiracy's ringleader was Anibal Escalante, 59, a onetime...
The students not only feel free to speak out in class but are very indignant when not given a chance to do so. In Mandel's political science course one boy burst into the teacher's long-winded interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine with: "It's not fair. You've...