Word: rare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some to the Nationalist stronghold on Formosa, but all felt that their existence was at stake. The matter was hotly argued last week in Manila's tiny sari-sari shops by the flickering light of kerosene lamps, in Bangkok's "thieves' market," where peddlers cautiously hawk rare Siamese antiques, in Singapore's Tanjong Rhu, the "millionaires' club," where wealthy Chinese dine on shark's fins and suckling pigs while outside stand row on row their parked Cadillacs and Daimlers...
...graffitos (or 'sgraffitos) are fairly rare birds, even in this modern age of marvels, and it took quite a search to find a suitable artist. The hero was finally secured, however, as everyone knew he would be, and one fine summer day he and his 16-year-old son came to Quincy and perpetrated a graffito, all blue, yellow...
Painting Manhattan a mild pink, with five other Soviet musicians, Russia's famed Composer Dmitry Shostakovich mustered a rare smile when meeting...
...Then, too, the story sometimes lags-not, oddly enough, because it is too long but because it is too short. For the final script, M-G-M eliminated an entire subplot that gives the middle of the story its shape and suspense. But the religious theme is handled with rare restraint and good taste. The face of Christ is never fully revealed. The Sermon on the Mount, The Trial. The Ascent of Calvary and The Crucifixion are pictured, without breathless reverence, in a matter-of-fact manner, as contemporary political events...
Kabalevsky's somberly flowing Concerto for Cello and Orchestra proved such a hit that the composer-conductor finally signaled to Soloist Mayes. repeated the second movement, a rare procedure in staid old Symphony Hall. Khrennikov's First Symphony proved to be a broadly melodic crowd-rouser, and Amirov's Kyurdi-Ovshari Mugami was so heavily coated with schmalzy melody that one listener cracked: "The triumph of the proletariat on Bald Mountain." Nevertheless, the audience shouted its approval, while the Russians, standing on the stage, applauded the spectators in return. "For Symphony Hall," said the radio announcer...