Word: ets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...passion, the pangs of jealousy, the durability and disillusionment of life in partnership -- the state he describes, in a characteristic song title, as perpetually Sorry- Grateful. It's been more than five years since he last brought a show to Broadway (his unpleasant Assassins, about John Wilkes Booth et al., had a brief sold-out run off-Broadway), and the next best thing to a new Sondheim score is a thoughtful revisit to old ones. It's a measure of the consistently high quality of his work that after giving rise to three anthologies -- Side by Side by Sondheim, Marry...
...Nobody can answer the questions 'Why now? Why this piece?' " says Gorecki (pronounced Goor-et-ski), 59, outside his apartment in Katowice, a grimy industrial city 185 miles southwest of Warsaw, where he lives with his wife Jadwiga and their two grown children. "Perhaps people, especially young people, find something they need in this piece of music, something they are seeking...
...Bill Weld, his opponent, responded with TV ads showing sprightly old people dancing and playing bingo and then being told that, at the state's request, they should drop dead ASAP to ease the fiscal crisis. Even though the idea had distant poetic ancestry in Wilfred Owen's Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori, Silber's campaign fizzled soon thereafter. Still, Silber's message, though transformed somewhat, has survived...
...There are a lot of athletes, but we cover a wide range." says Lau R. Christensen '94, house committee treasurer. "Sometimes you get annoyed at the lack of musicians et cetera, but on the other hand you have a lot in common with other people that live in the house...
...Belle et la Bete" remains the definitive film adaptation of the familiar story, an extraordinary and profoundly influential movie. Disney, in fact, "borrowed" the look and many other aspects of its cartoon from Cocteau's film. To see Jean Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast" is to see why movies were invented. Cocteau's oneiric masterpiece is a perfect demonstration of what movies can give us that other media can't; it is a dream that seizes us and pulls us into a world that operates under its own logic. We find ourselves in a landscape where beauty seems...