Word: chiaroscuro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revive their cotton mill is black. The town's rejection of prosperity on these terms, and the explosion that results, might have provided the occasion for a dramatic exploration of attitudes and tensions. But Playwright Yabo Yablonsky's formalistic approach to his story keeps the action in chiaroscuro...
...while lacking the variety and consistent excellence of the Knoedler's exhibit, offers a valuable look at what almost seems to be a contradiction in terms: intimate baroque painting. Virtually every sketch in the show depicts Biblical or mythological figures arranged in elaborate compositions, dramatized with sometimes exaggerated chiaroscuro and overwrought perspective. Yet if the viewer can accommodate himself to the baroque's love of allegory, he will find the oil sketches a delight...
...essence of the film, though, is not in the comic-strip chiaroscuro of its plot but in the fun Director Jaroslav Balík and his cast have with their caricatures. Rudolf Hruŝínsky turns in a burly, brachycephalic performance as the ape man, first delighted by the apparent selflessness of humans-who do not fight for food at a reception and talk constantly of altruism-then horrified at the superjungle that gives the lie to their platitudes. "People, what are you doing?" he cries as the assorted forces of evil tangle in, around, up, down and through...
...York City Ballet offered some of the most spectacular dancing-and it was strictly homegrown. During its spring season at the New York State Theater of Lincoln Center, it displayed a repertory of 41 dances, a chiaroscuro of choreographic talent unmatched by any company in the world. A good three-quarters of the works were created by George Balanchine, 64, who uncharacteristically looked into his past by re-creating his first big Broadway hit, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, from the 1936 production On Your Toes...
...only time Haitink acts the part of a confident conductor is when he steps on the podium. Then he is all that might be expected of somebody who is regarded as one of the top younger figures in the field-firm, precise, sensitive, adept at molding the rich chiaroscuro of the Concertgebouw sound without blurring the melodies or jostling the rhythms. Under his baton, the orchestra is not yet burnished to the glow it had under Mengelberg, and in some of the repertory he has not yet overcome a faint tendency toward coolness and restraint. But when he conducts...