Word: crucifixions
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...final curtain, the count had risen by another 77 corpses, with a crucifixion or two thrown in. A feast at the Villa of Crassus provided an excuse for a seduction scene (by Ballerina Natalia Ryzhenko) and some writhing by 15 Cadiz dancing girls, all of them bare considerably south of the navel. Khatchaturian's thunderous score omitted scarcely a single cliché of film music, and not even Plisetskaya was equal to the absurdities of her role as Spartacus' wife. As Spartacus himself, the Bolshoi introduced a giant (Dmitry Begak) who danced just about the way a giant...
...bare hands. But down in Cockpit Centre, the mockers who always ridiculed Moses are now rapturously following a Marxist messiah who preaches revolution and easily defeats Moses in a marketplace debate. The prophet determines to make amends for his philandering and vainglory as God's son should: through crucifixion...
...Would the world's greatest religious composer have spent his last days writing mere fugal exercises?" she asks. Her contention, briefly, is that The Art of Fugue "is Bach's story of the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus and the salvation of mankind; including his own personal salvation in the final fugue. When he reached this point, the plan was too stupendous, even the master could not complete it." (No plan would have been too stupendous for Bach; but let's not go into that...
Henry Miller is still the world's most smuggled author-no Sarah Lawrence girl would think of returning to the temperate zones from her junior year abroad without a copy of his still-banned Tropic of Capricorn or Rosy Crucifixion hidden in the soiled laundry. But he is also the author most often skipped. That is to say, the almost unvarying gait for getting through one of Miller's books is: read four pages, skip four pages. Cynics will suggest that this is because the dirty passages in the Tropics or Sexus, Nexus and Plexus come at four...
...year on a bitter cold mountaintop. On Mt. Alvernia, he receives the Stigmata in a vision that is pure Kazantzakis. Seeing the crucified Christ wrapped in flames, Francis cries in anguish: "I want more, more! The Resurrection!'' But Christ, echoing Kazantzakis' own belief, stonily replies: 'Crucifixion. Resurrection, and Paradise are identical.'' But Francis' charm is as richly portrayed as his torments. He preaches by ringing a bell, dancing in the streets, clapping and singing. His sermon to the swallows, his conversion of his friends are as beautifully rendered as they...