Word: jaggedness
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BARTOK: STRING QUARTETS 1-6 (Columbia; 3 LPs). The Juilliard String Quartet, after many performances of the works and a previous set of recordings, attacks each quartet with consummate skill and understanding. The musicians are warmly expansive in the romantic first quartet (1908), pungently Magyar in the second (1915-17...
Amid barrels of burning gasoline, cars crashing down jagged hillsides, and gorgeous women quivering their lips seductively, James Bond has returned to Cambridge.
HUGHIE (Columbia). "In a really dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning," wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. Eugene O'Neill unfolded one of those nocturnal dialogues, ostensibly between a small-time gambler and a hotel night clerk, but actually between a man...
The mother should be transparent, a ruin of beauty. Maureen Stapleton is as solid as a mountain of pasta; one cannot see through her to the mythic past. There is bougainvillaea, and weeping willow, and a century of wounded Southern pride in the prose arias that Tennessee Williams gave the...
The Andes are young and violent mountains, not yet fully grown or pacified by time. Still-active volcanoes pock the spiny range running the length of western South America. Avalanches rumble down constantly from the 20,000-ft. peaks. And beneath the earth's jagged crust, fantastic forces grind...