Word: codas
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...even the most important of its reversals. Adapting his own play, Pinter has retained the device that supplied its theatrical renown, a reverse structure. This is no mere matter of flashbacks. Rather, Pinter charts the entire course of Jerry's affair with Emma backward, starting with a wistful coda, then proceeding through breakup, Robert's discovery of what the couple is up to, the rental of a love nest, the first illicit meeting, the initial acknowledgment of mutual attraction, with which the film ends. There is something smug and self-conscious about this conceit, but it is also...
...Oxbridge grads-Cook, Miller and Alan Bennett-in the satirical review Beyond the Fringe. Moore's most brilliant contributions were at the keyboard, in a lampoon of Myra Hess playing the "Moonlight"Sonata and in a hilarious, dizzy bit about a pianist who is unable to conclude a coda to a florid piece. The show played for four years to packed houses, first in London, then in New York. When it ended, Moore and Cook went on to do a television series and five movies, including Bedazzled, their zany version of the Faust legend. Their style was blithe, bizarre...
Just how complete the break now is between the papacy and art may be judged from the roomful of uncomfortably "religious" paintings by André Derain, Graham Sutherland and Ben Shahn, enlivened only by a Matisse design for a large stained-glass window that gives the exhibition its feeble coda. Owing in part to the zeal of an association called the Friends of American Art in Religion, run by an art dealer named Lawrence Fleischman under the benign presidency of Terence Cardinal Cooke, masses of otherwise unsalable modern religious art have been decanted into the Vatican since the late...
...full of that kind of fine, mad logic, and Scorsese's edgy style, nervous and bright, fits the subject perfectly. By the time Rupert kidnaps Jerry, demanding air time for his monologue, and making everyone believe that death is his downside, the movie is irresistible, though a crude coda, which makes explicit the social criticism long since implied, is eminently resistible. But if it blunts it cannot spoil a film that will itch on the memory...
...last week. The company was in the midst of its second Stravinsky festival, held on the tenth anniversary of the triumphant first one (as well as the centennial of the composer's birth). There were doubters who pointed out the obvious: the new celebration could only be a coda to 1972 because the best scores have already been used, and City Ballet's master choreographer George Balanchine, 78, is no longer quite so active...