Word: classical
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...writers chose to place much emphasis on the extra-musical lives of the musicians. A few well-chosen biographical details can often shed more light on the highly personal art of jazz creation than pages of technical dissection. For instance, A.B. Spellman's Black Music: Four Lives, a classic in the field of jazz literature, was conceived largely as a work of sociology. Unfortunately, The Jazz Makers is not so varied, informative, or readable as its alluring format. While it is impossible to capture a great creative spirit in a short essay, most of the writers involved in this project...
...work is much better appreciated on the large screen than it is on the small, and for this compilation, Jones has cut pieces from 16 Road Runners together into a seamless super-chase. It is reason enough to attend this movie, but there are others. Among them are two classic Jones-supervised shorts, What's Opera, Doc?, a send-up of Walt Disney's Fantasia in which Bugs Bunny makes a ravishing Brunhilde opposite Elmer Fudd's stalwart Wagnerian hero. In Duck Amuck, Daffy Duck, whose specialty is egocentricity, suffers the indignity of having his costumes...
...classic clown tradition, Brooks claims that none of this has brought happiness-and he may very well be right. "Jim is a roller coaster," says Daniels. "He's up. He's down. You try to hang on and you see he's going in another direction." Like the Burt Reynolds character in Starting Over, the bearded Brooks, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Lytton Strachey, apparently had a slow recovery from divorce. "I would go out on a date," he says, "and have difficulty breathing." But he finally had a soft landing into a second marriage, with...
...Pittsburgh Pirates completed their sensational World Series comeback last night in Baltimore, by defeating the Orioles, 4-1, in the seventh and deciding game of this year's fall classic...
...high point of the season, however, came at the Kendall Classic when Beckford finished second only to Olympian Francie Larrieu, lowering her mile time to 4:41--almost 34 seconds faster than the Harvard record set at 5:15.4 by Sarah Linsley...