Word: palely
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...know that talent, like blood type, is decided before birth; that the plainsman, the rebel and the runaway are all branches on the same family tree. It is more than the physical resemblance that unites them?the El Greco shanks, the narrow faces with too much jaw, and the pale, inquiring eyes of hunted animals. There is also a common quality of purpose, a mutual undertow of melancholy...
...color, pinks and pale greens are favored, and fans of those shades call them soft and feminine. Women's Wear Daily calls them "icky-poo pastels." Miss Treyz also confirms Mrs. Nixon's inbred frugality: "I want her to get her money's worth," she says. No chance, then, for a $2,000 Norman Norell evening dress (Jacqueline Kennedy's choice as First Lady), or any of the $600 Mollie Parnis outfits beloved by Lady Bird Johnson; Mrs. Nixon spends only about $145 for a daytime ensemble, $300 to $400 for a formal gown. Miss Treyz...
...valuable aspects of the film have been contributed by Director Tony Richardson. He has cut the text by about a third, giving the production a brisk pace without mangling it. Olivier's film never evoked "the pale cast of thought." It made Hamlet an agile activist who, as one critic put it, was "too busy" to kill the king. Richardson has concentrated on closeups of heads. The most concrete image in Hamlet is Yorick's skull, the symbol of mortality. The abstract image is the human brain. The existential terrain of Hamlet is the mind, vast...
Looking a bit pale after the match. Behrens heaved. "I was exhausted after two minutes...
...denial of song. But last week, conducting a performance of the new production, Boulez turned Pelleas into a musical affirmation by treating the drama not as a fairy tale but a human story. Thus he brought passion and pain to a work that all too often seems pale. In the famous scene where Melisande (Soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom) looses her hair over the ardent Pelleas (Tenor George Shirley), Boulez whipped the music to a Tristan-like sexual intensity. Then, at the entrance of Melisande's jealous husband Golaud (Baritone Donald McIntyre), he cut through the sensuality with harsh, jabbing chords...