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Kyaw Lin, 11, is so tiny that the barrel of his M-16 rifle is sawed in half so he can carry it. It is still almost as long as he is. He has a florid tattoo on his right arm -- a premature badge of manhood that also serves as an animist charm to ward off evil. Sometimes Kyaw Lin is shaky and feverish because, like most of his comrades, he suffers from bouts of malaria. Nobody is there to wipe his brow or take his temperature; he just lies in his bunker until the fever subsides...
Gershwin is not the only performer whose works could be computerized. Rachmaninoff, Ravel and Debussy also recorded piano rolls. But it was such keyboard acrobats as Gershwin and Zez Confrey, playing in the florid "novelty" style developed to boost player-piano sales, who were the stars of their day. Says Wodehouse: "This will open up an era of music that has been largely forgotten...
...have unwound their every bolt of gaudy cloth. No fewer than five composers are credited with contributing to the noisy score; the choreography, some of it by Marius Petipa, is strictly cut and paste; the plot went down with the ship. But Le Corsaire provides the occasion for some florid dancing, especially in the hands of bravura technicians like Tatyana Terekhova and Farukh Ruzimatov or a poet on point like Altynai Asylmuratova, the company's reigning ballerina...
...handful of creative white religious artists in South Africa, insists, "Urgency is the basis of all great art. This urgency is no longer apparent in European or U.S. art." That judgment may be too sweeping. Yet there is no question that African Christian art, serene and savage, florid and austere, stands virtually alone in the vigor and authenticity with which its practitioners seek to express the inexpressible...
MANDY PATINKIN: MANDY PATINKIN (CBS). The Broadway (Sunday in the Park with George) and movie (Alien Nation) actor lets fly with a fearlessly melodramatic song cycle chosen from sources as various as Stephen Sondheim and Al Jolson. Some of the tunes are a bit florid, but the best (like Anyone Can Whistle) have a delicacy that lingers...