Word: broodingness
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Here was the man from Yankee Stadium, dressed in a solid black robe that looked so incongruously effeminate on his ponderous frame. His face seemed lonely without the company of a cigar. Here was this white norteamericano perfunctorily reading prayers in Spanish that probably none of these impoverished peasants could...
Nostalgic Pangs. The music album best opens the door to memory. How fine to have at hand the true tone of all those Busby Berkeley production numbers. No subsequent recordings of the songs quite recapture the tinny excitement of the original scoring as it was caught by primitive sound systems...
Still, it is quite a triumph for somebody who set out from Minnesota in 1961 on a pilgrimage to the bed of the dying Woody Guthrie, his only ambition to "make it big." The fact that along the way Dylan became an oracle was almost accidental, involuntary. While his musical...
Now a new five-album, 15-LP release from RCA makes amends handsomely, if belatedly. The set contains, for example, not just the famous recording of the Second Concerto made with Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1929 but also another version with the same performers from 1924. Then...
Over the years, Jason Robards' psychic affinity for O'Neill has marked the peaks of his acting career. His Hickey in The Iceman Cometh, Jamie in Long Day's Journey, and title role in Hughie will probably never be surpassed. Increasingly, Robards even looks like O'...