Word: wondrous
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Patsy Cline's voice was a wondrous instrument, a plangent contralto aged in whisky and barroom cigarette smoke, with the traditional hillbilly yodel transformed into the gasp of a mature heart breaking. All evidence suggests she earned that voice. In her marriage to Charlie, she shows that she can stand by her man, stand up to him, then throw him out when he gets too rough. Curing the on-the-road blues with a little a cappella harmony on Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms, Patsy finds therapy in music: a way both of transcending her troubles...
...fading away," said Wolter. "It hung in a surveyor's office for God knows how many years." It could no longer be shown to the public because it could no longer stand the light. Facsimiles, yes, but not the original. So let us move on, said Wolter; many other wondrous things repose in this safe...
...others, fine photographs of ruins and landscape open up a continent containing much that is wondrous. But throughout the panels are pictures that capture single events: a group surrounding a Santiago evangelist, a Peruvian dwarf, a religious procession...
...Emerald City as Dorothy (Fairuza Balk) rediscovers it is about as wondrous as East Berlin in a brownout. Seems that the Nome King, who is a talking rock (stonily played by Nicol Williamson), has trashed the place and turned its inhabitants into boulders for good measure. Presiding over the ruins is, of course, a wicked witch (Jean Marsh), who lacks a broomstick but has several dozen changes of head in her closet. Her transformations are certain to fill young children with puzzled horror rather than with the delicious mirth that Margaret Hamilton generated with her over-the-top parody...
...regional companies including the Guthrie in Minneapolis, the Yale Repertory Theater and Robert Brustein's American Repertory Theater at Harvard. Last week the newest candidate took center stage. The American National Theater, headed by Peter Sellars, 27, opened at Washington's Kennedy Center with a less than wondrous Henry IV, Part I by that "American," William Shakespeare. Sellars' rationale for starting with an Elizabethan masterwork rather than, say, a Eugene O'Neill tragedy is to rediscover the plays and grandiloquent production styles that were popular at the dawning of the modern American theater. Indeed, the next show, which he will...