Word: extinctionism
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The piano is dying. So is the pianist -of exhaustion. Or so claims Monique de la Bruchollerie, one of Europe's top concert pianists. Modern piano compositions have become so wickedly difficult to play that to get by today the pianist must be something of a contortionist-gyrating, flailing...
One French orientalist cynically concludes that "Islam, as a faith and a law, can no longer exist in modern civilization." Yet the continuing lure of the hajj for all Moslems, from fellah to philosopher, makes it clear that the spirit of Mohammed's faith is not so easily stilled...
Junkyard bargains, from limestone putti to dented iron deer, have long been available for those with offbeat tastes. But as architectural monuments are bulldozed into extinction across the land, a new group of collectors is springing up - architectural buffs who first picket to preserve the best of the old, then...
Bresson's flow of sound and image is set to an inner rhythm as clear-and at moments as soporific-as a slow-rolling drumbeat. The cumulative effect is massive, finally unforgettable. The death of Joan is a nearly wordless sequence that provides a definitive lesson in economy of...
Neither a sentimental showman nor a tightwad, he has shown that Hollywood can still make competent movies that are bids for quality within their own form and stay in the black, and that, as he puts it, "if you are going to manufacture anything, you ought to have the finest...