Word: byronic
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...least that's what Joanne Byron and a number of fans at Saturday's Harvard-Lafayette football game want to say to the leggy supermodel...
...Byron, who represents the Framingham, Mass-based New Age Models `R Good Business, collected signatures at Soldiers Field for a petition to reform the modeling industry...
While she said she does not want to see young models out of a job, Byron urged that the modeling industry needs a broader spectrum of women to represent the gamut of fashion consumers. She said the industry is unrealistic, primarily using "younger, taller, pencil-thin models" like Crawford...
Probably no opera could do justice to its subject's tempestuous 36 years. Jack Larson's static libretto focuses in flashback on Byron's eccentric amatory escapades; the action is framed by the efforts of Byron's friends to win him a place in Poets' Corner. Of his more dramatic travels, battles and death at Missolonghi there is scarcely a word. Such a conception might have worked had Thomson been a composer of passion and power, had he been able to write music commensurate with Byron's words and deeds -- had he been, in short, the Verdi of Otello...
...fresh face but a familiar style to late night. CINEMA Adorable Macaulay Culkin plays a bad seed in The Good Son. Into the West is a fairy tale of modern Ireland. MUSIC John Mellencamp's new album is part small-town twang, part urban soul and all American. Lord Byron, Virgil Thomson's last opera, is not Byronic enough. BOOKS A first novel by Frank Conroy needs a sound track...