Word: reader
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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With his successes and failings tightly linked together, Barenboim is one of the most intriguing figures in music today. His pudgy little hands fly over the keyboard, and he is a prodigious sight reader. The trouble, some critics contend not unjustly, is that he spends too much time sight-reading and not enough time thinking about the works he already knows. But Barenboim's surface accomplishment is perhaps a peculiar result of the frantic musical life he has so far chosen to lead...
...years the patience of American cooks has been most perversely tried. Despite the fact that cookbooks sell by the hundreds of thousands and bring in millions of dollars, the instructions they offer the reader are too often vague, ambiguous or simply nonexistent...
...achieves Silly Putty instead of a creamy liquid is told among other things to avoid several common varieties and to buy others, notably Cheddar, only when aged. The section on the mysterious ways of chocolate might have been written by a scientist. In fact, after finishing Field, the reader may feel more like a chemist than an alchemist, but the results are reliable, as they are intended...
...each article she contends with the faults and merits of a different structure-a method which, unfortunately, emphasizes single monuments at the expense of a feel for the organic whole. Pictures of each building let the reader assess for himself her lucid and perceptive analyses...
...ACTORS have come hither, dear reader, and-as Polonius would have it-they're set on being the best actors in the world. Either for tragedy, comedy, historical, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral. And all within the scope of one play, mind you. The play in question being Peter Raby's adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers. And given that Raby renders the venerable old Dumas novel in a succession of Forty, Count em, Forty, Swiftly Moving and Breathtakingly Dramatic Scenes-See D'Artagnan outwit the Cardinal's guards! See Milady de Winter steal...