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...gold and black uniform of a Spanish grenadier, Warren soliloquized about his gravely wounded comrade-in-arms: "Morir! . . . Tremenda cosa!" ("To die! Tremendous thing!"). Finally he sang the great aria, "Urna fatale del mio destino" ("Fatal urn of my destiny"), giving it the flooding warmth of color and the vibrant depth of feeling that only he could command...
...Actress Stickney respects her material, her material restricts Poet Millay. Only glimpsed through chinks is that mingled poet and woman who during the 1920s crystallized an attitude and epitomized an era. Whether with her gaily illicit valentines or her often vibrant cris du coeur, Edna Millay reshaped romantic love into lyrical sex, was one moment a heartbreaker, the next moment heartbroken. She made unconventionality chic, but could also, as in picketing for Sacco and Vanzetti, make protest resonant. There was something of a distaff Byron, about her, and on the stage of the '20s she was one kind...
...produces a dozen or so pictures each year. He does them in less than a day each, dancing before the canvas, squeezing his lines straight from tube to picture, and smearing the colors into place with his bare hands. The results are not expressionistic abstractions but brilliant and vibrant emotional renderings of the world around...
Factories for Atmosphere. The man behind these vibrant creations is surprisingly round, of belly, of face and of pale blue eye. Raised in Berlin, he entered the air force right after high school, but was grounded in a comparatively safe post because his two older brothers had already been killed. As a student at Berlin's Academy of Fine Arts after the war, he was a disciple of Rodin, but Kricke's independence of mind soon asserted itself to make him unpopular with his academic teachers. He moved to Duesseldorf because ''it has a certain dynamism...
...imposing woman, Dramatic Soprano Nilsson was discovered, as the curtain rose, pacing the deck of the ship bearing Isolde to King Mark of Cornwall; for all the world she looked like a handsome Viking figurehead. In the long, angry denunciation of Tristan that followed, she displayed a big, flashing, vibrant voice that galvanized her audience and conveyed an immediate sense of the turbulent passions that animate the role. As the opera unfolded, Soprano Nilsson continued to dominate the stage with such ringing power that she cut without difficulty through the opulent textures of the Wagnerian orchestra-particularly in the climactic...