Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tippett's score-dense, compact, intricate-rumbles darkly with violence and glistens with unexpected color. The choral scenes capture the shout of the mob. The solo lines sometimes soar in daring melismas, sometimes settle into softly swooping lyricism.
Americans are a people capable of extraordinary ingenuity and unexpected self-discipline when they come up hard against something they see as a real emergency. When California's Marin County was confronted with a drought two years ago, for example, residents shared the burden of sacrifice with remarkable success...
Five months after the painful break in relations, Taiwan not only seems to have absorbed the blow but to be more confident than ever of its future. Privately Taiwanese officials admit that the U.S. move has even had a number of unexpected benefits. The opening of the euphemistically named institute...
But if the recession hits later and harder, kicking up unemployment to unexpected highs, the pressure on Carter will be intense. Says one White House insider: "If the President is in trouble come New Hampshire, and the attacks are coming from the left, all bets are off." Good economics, as...
Much running about ensues, as two forces stumble over themselves in their desire to dispatch Scheider. Like so many younger film makers today, Demme is generous in his implied homages to Hitchcock. His camera buzzes around like a mosquito looking for some place to draw blood. Maddeningly, the script offers...