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...Allan S. Galper '93 is the assistant editorial chair of The Crimson...
Salome, although extremely talky, is wonderfully rich in mood. It convincingly mingles luxury and treachery into a romanticist's notion of ancient Middle Eastern palace life. This staging, directed by Robert Allan Ackerman with a cast of 24, is also just the sort of thing that unnerves opponents of the National Endowment for the Arts, which helped underwrite it. The title character's dance of the seven veils, performed by Sheryl Lee, is intensely erotic, authentically nude. The beheading of John the Baptist at Salome's behest, after he has thwarted her lust, is sickening yet hypnotic -- and is based...
...lila, or love, sport, the play of the gods. The symphony's 10 movements, which last well over an hour, are rife with programmatic references to the ancient Celtic love story of Tristan and Iseult, to the myths of ancient India, even to the spooky stories of Edgar Allan...
...even need an allergen to trigger an attack. General irritants such as cigarette smoke and urban smog can cause the already inflamed airways to constrict. "It is my opinion that parents or caregivers who smoke in the presence of a child are guilty of child abuse," says Dr. Allan Luskin of the Rush Medical Center in Illinois. "Smoke not only increases the risk of a child getting asthma in the first place, it makes asthma worse when it is there...
From Goethe to Henry James, from Keats to Edgar Allan Poe, Canova haunted the imagination of writers, especially American ones. In fact the subject of Canova and America is large and includes such curiosities as a series of Canova sculptures of George Washington, naked as a jaybird, in the role of the classical pater patriae. Canova worked for politicians, princes, Popes and bankers, all of whom concurred that he was the modern Phidias. Now he is unloved, except by fans and specialists whose enthusiasm tends to be mistaken for some kind of fetishism. The mid-19th century shift to realism...