Word: hauntedness
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Anyone composing a personal ad faces an inherent credibility problem. While we are accustomed to the self-promotions of politicians, say, we sense something bizarre when ordinary people erupt in small rhapsodies of self- celebration that are occasioned by loneliness and longing. One is haunted by almost piteous cries that...
The past is no foreign country to Steven Spielberg. He lives there in his memory, in his fertile imagination and, triumphantly, in his films. "Everything that I do in my movies," he says, "is a product of my homelife in suburban U.S.A. I can always trace a movie idea back...
The exhibition in New York, which was coordinated by Maya Scholar Charles Gallenkamp, features objects of ineffable fragility and beauty. These include six polychrome ceramic bowls excavated over the past five years at Tikal, the largest of all the known ancient Maya cities. Found in tombs at a site dubbed...
During his 14-day stay, said Rolf, he found a person very different from the dapper, even avuncular man-about-town he had seen in photographs. His father was intellectually alert and still on top of his Greek and Latin, Rolf recalled, "but he was a haunted creature," possessed by...
George Crumb: A Haunted Landscape; William Schuman: Three Colloquies for Horn and Orchestra. (New York Philharmonic, Arthur Weisberg, conductor (of the Crumb); Zubin Mehta, conductor (Schuman), with Philip Myers, horn; New World Records.) Blessed with one of the most remarkable ears for sonority of any modern composer, Crumb has long...