Word: elegiacally
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...common experience of Ellis Island fostered a fitting sort of quasi- kinship among U.S. citizens: nearly half of all Americans today can trace their lineage through the enormous main registry hall. Last week, as two visitors strolled the rich, elegiac ruin, a workman spontaneously announced his family connection with the place. "My grandmother came here when she was 17 years old," he shouted, "with nothing but a suitcase full of oranges. A suitcase full of oranges...
...bust in oil prices will pass in time like the seven-year drought of the '50s. But for all the usual Texas exuberance, one hears sometimes an elegiac note. Ranches are being broken up into "ranchettes," absurd little parcels of land in the middle of nowhere. The owner thereby becomes a small parody of the land-holder, the cattle baron. Some ranchers are turning their land over to "exotic game safaris," importing African animals (gazelles or eland or Cape buffalo) and parading them over the range to be shot, for a handsome price, by city boys dressed up like Jeremiah...
...which means "chaos" in Japanese) we venture into a territory where the very word adaptation distorts and diminishes both intention and accomplishment. For what Akira Kurosawa has done is to reimagine Lear in terms of his own philosophy, which blends strains of Western existentialism with a sort of elegiac Buddhism, and the imperatives of the movies. If Shakespeare's poetry enters the mind through the ear, Kurosawa's enters it through the eye. But the imagery is of comparable quality, at once awesome in its power, delicate in its irony and, finally, for all the violence of the events...
...Nazi's quiet demise was in keeping with the way he had spent his final years. Accompanied by photographs showing a distinguished-looki ng old man at once elegant and elegiac, the Bunte story presented the image of a melancholy but unrepentant old man living out his last days in near poverty. That impression was confirmed by his writings, in which the doctor grumpily denounced Communism and even went so far as to claim that the Nazi era would be regarded by history as one of the most splendid epochs since the time of Alexander the Great...
...this legacy, but fresh material keeps coming. Two years ago, Peter Martins drew on her restraint and musicianship in a delicate work, Rossini Quartets. Last week at the New York City Ballet, Jerome Robbins weighed in with a really fat part. In Memory of . . . , set to Alban Berg's elegiac Violin Concerto, is a highly dramatic work, more openly emotional than Robbins usually allows himself to be. In the role of a dying girl, Farrell adds another heroine to her gallery of lost ladies...