Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fast enough. One journalist at the U.N. gets so exercised at the mere sight of Menon that he must leave the room whenever Menon comes in. While he feels persecuted, he also manages to believe that he is greatly liked, has told interviewers: "I suppose you wonder why Krishna Menon is so popular...
...Giant Keepers. The American Association of Theatre Organ Enthusiasts numbers more than 1,500 devotees of the Mighty Wurlitzer and its cousins, the Silver Throated Barton, the Kilgen Wonder Organ, the Möller De Luxe, the Marr & Colton Symphonic Registrator. Among the cultists...
Furnished rooms, cafeterias, pet cemeteries, and empty stares are the boundaries of the world The Savage Eye shows us with so much anger and so little respect. The effect is enormously depressing. But I wonder if only a kind of sentimentalism could see such total boredom and sin in the faces of these city people. It is hard to see what values the makers of this movie are applying to city life...
...glitters with echoes of half a dozen com posers, from Berg to Bartok. Carl Orff's cantata Carmina Burana is brilliantly parodied by an offstage male chorus singing a salty Latin text on the mating habits of ants; acidulous Stravinskyan brasses turn up in Act III. The real wonder is that despite the borrowing Composer Ronnefeld's score has a character of its own brash, melodramatic, full of rhythmic fire...
...resembles nothing so much as a huge television set. The glass in the picture windows is specially treated to let in ultraviolet rays so that on sunny days the occupants can indulge in the Russian penchant for midwinter sunbathing. Looking in on such a scene, passers-by might well wonder what channel that show was coming...