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Among the works chosen by Tassel and Rosovsky were a number of prints by the French Bonfils family. Felix Bonfils, who settled in Beirut, began a well-known collection of photographs...
...where Luther, in disguise, completed his translation of the New Testament while hiding out from Catholic wrath and Wagner set his opera Tannhauser. In Leipzig, a sterner Bach is memorialized outside the Thomaskirche by both a full-length statue and, not far from the church, a bust dedicated by Felix Mendelssohn. Genius pays homage to even greater genius: it was the romantic Mendelssohn, a Christianized Jew, who in 1829 revived Bach's greatest religious work, the towering St. Matthew Passion, and in so doing unwittingly canonized...
...imagine, by dint of stubborn labor," he wrote to a critic shortly before his death. He wanted his work to be a homemade replica of the values enshrined in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, as manifested in the big French Salon painters: Jean-Leon Gerome, Adolphe-William Bouguereau, Felix-Auguste Clement. He loved their important subjects, their grasp of the colonial exotic, their professionalism and high finish. So when artists 40 years his junior like Picasso and Delaunay paid him their semireverent homages, he took them as his due without interesting himself much in their paintings. He patted the Young...
...SNAPPY ONE-LINERS and strong vocals which open the show set the pace for most of the first act. Take Eddie's classmate Felix, for example, who confesses to having had 2,617 impure thoughts in one week as a second grader. Or the crotchety Sister Lee, who cautions her girls against sitting at a table with a white tablecloth because "it reminds the boys of bed." Such uproarious exchanges between students and teachers find a delicate balance in the meditative, less bawdy musical numbers. The group rendition of "How Far is too Far" treats the issue of sex with...
...prime suspects in the Camarena-Zavala case are still two Mexican drug kingpins, Miguel Felix Gallardo and Rafael Caro Quintero. But the U.S. believes that Mexico's gangland "families" have been operating with wide- scale police protection. Officers who were supposedly tracking Caro Quintero in connection with the Camarena case claimed they simply failed to recognize the well-known crook when he boarded a private plane in Guadalajara two days after the agent's abduction. Caro Quintero flew to Caborca, a remote desert town where he may now be in hiding...