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...intended price gets a polished treatment from Guinness, although the part wastes his comic talents. He manages to carry off the royal role with a smooth blend of awkwardness and calm courtship...
...Hollywooden shoes, but redeems himself by capturing the sights and sounds and smells of Egypt with the freshness of a documentary filmed on location. Like Paul Bowles's more accomplished novel, The Spider's House, set in French Morocco, The Cry of the Kite is a blend of the harsh and the exotic, and an entertainingly readable way of catching up on one's global homework...
...labeled "primitive, Hebrew, Moslem, Buddhist, Christian, Free Thought, and Hymn of Toil." Some of the music, such as the "Primitive" section, is really wild. Throughout, the piece shines with the style of Slavenski, incorporating Eastern ideas of melody with western harmonic practices. He has not quite achieved a satisfactory blend, but he makes effective use of pedal points, repetitions, and modality. While Slavenski is long on imagination and short on technique, the record is certainly without equal in its field...
...some ways his best. Dying before he could finish it, Puccini left undone what he wanted to be "the greatest duet ever written." Whether or not he could have fulfilled this aim or not, the rest of the music, some two hours worth, is full of a fine blend of Oriental color and Italian melody. The story concerns a Chinese princess who gives her suitors three riddles to answer. The penalty for wrong guesses is decapitation, but the beauty of Turandot entices many prospective bridegrooms. Such a plot satisfied Puccini's love of dramatic situations, and he wrote his most...
Such tensions and complexities are far from rare in Hollywood. What is rare is the driving sincerity of William Holden, his almost complete lack of pretentiousness, his energetic blend of talent and intelligence, his simple human decency to other people. One of his directors sums him up as "the typical American boy who wanted to become a slob, but couldn't make the grade...