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...private life, he is physically fearless in front of an audience; the burst of acrobatic twisting, leaping and rolling with which Ramey depicts the devil's discomfiture at the end of Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele is one of the most breathtaking spectacles in contemporary opera performance. European companies clamor for his services; two summers ago, the Paris Opera staged a vivid production of Giacomo Meyerbeer's 19th century spectral curiosity, Robert le Diable, just...
...strange man," Christie's auctioneer Charles Allsopp said of Van Gogh amid the clamor that followed the fall of the gavel. "He wasn't very good at marketing it." Not only a deep epitaph but a modest understatement: Van Gogh sold, as everyone knows, one painting in his life, and it was not Sunflowers. If only he had had what we have today -- a million millionaires clamoring for art, corporate art advisers breeding like Gucci-shod mice in every cranny from Tokyo to Stuttgart, the whole grotesque edifice of sanctimony, hype, greed and social mummery that has been raised above...
...20th century has taught us that it is at precisely such moments that history sets up an importunate clamor on our doorsteps, demanding its due. This is quite literally true in the case of the Steenwijks, for the Resistance has chosen their quiet street as the perfect place to assassinate a particularly vile Nazi collaborator. He is hit in front of a neighboring house, but its inhabitants drag his corpse next door so that the reprisals, which everyone knows will be swift and terrible, will be directed at the Steenwijks...
Zeigler said she feared that the issue of divestment was being overshadowed by the clamor over Brown's disciplinary action...
Although modern-day students clamor for more openness in the disciplinary process, their 19th century predecessor's wanted to keep things a little more private. Following widespread student complaint, the faculty in 1897 abolished the practice of "posting," or publishing the names of students who had been found guilty of breaking Harvard rules...