Word: cavaliere
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The authors have taken the thematic framework of the book from the story of a 17th-century nun, Mariana Alcoforado. Sent to a convent at the age of 16 because her parents could not afford to provide her with a dowry, she was seduced and impregnated by a dashing French...
As must be clear by now, Russell is hardly interested in traditional narrative film making. He is not concerned with the usual standards of good taste either, except to mock and outrage them. His biographies of artists (Song of Summer, The Music Lovers, Savage Messiah) display a sumptuously cavalier disregard...
While sitting with a dying friend four years ago, William Roberts was struck by the grim isolation of the deathbed. "It seemed to me," he says, "that dying people were treated in a cold, almost cavalier manner." Suffering from diabetes, Roberts, now 50, quit his job a year ago as...
One of the most intriguing questions about the rumors is who started them. Orchestration of what may well be a politically motivated smear campaign has been variously attributed to leftists embittered by their defeat in last spring's election, Israeli embassy officials angered by France's pro-Arab...
"Surprising casualness" (Raoul Berger of Harvard). "Dangerous nonsense" (Gerald Gunther of Stanford). "Disturbingly cavalier" (Paul J. Mishkin of Berkeley).