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...also devoted much time to the charming of ladies, in ways that apparently did not develop into bona fide affairs. The real love of his life was his older sister Fanny. As children they were inseparable, sometimes too much so for Felix. "Is the string on which I flutter long, but unbreakable?" he once wrote her. Although each later married happily, they remained the closest of confidants, especially on artistic matters. Upon hearing the news of Fanny's premature death of a stroke in 1847, Mendelssohn himself collapsed. He died five months later...
...editor of The Antiquer, a magazine about old planes. There is Bach, funny and forbearing with nearly everyone, being oddly short-tempered with his children. Yet the very next image shows him (yes) fondly, unflappably delivering Bette's last child himself in their Iowa house. Sheets of typewritten paper flutter across the screen. They coalesce into the three books that Bach wrote before Jonathan?the first, Stranger to the Ground, fading into a Reader's Digest logo, with "condensed" written under...
...immediately departs for Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, which represents earthly paradise. Thereafter, the graceful and the grotesque prance the stage in some of the longest, slowest processionals since Catherine de Medici introduced ballet spectacle to the court of France in the late 16th century. Nymphs, whores and clowns flutter merrily about. Morality figures of death and madness strut menacingly. The serpent, dressed in a red flapperesque wig and pelvis-pinching tights, snakes sneakily around her victims. Nijinsky ascends the cross for several minutes of agony, then descends to triumph over Diaghilev in the name of love and artistic freedom...
...built-in defense against continuous exposure to loud noise: he goes partially deaf. Before that, however, he may well suffer headaches, heart flutter, and even ulcers. What can be done to quiet the crescendo that is rising every year? New York City has an answer. It has just passed the toughest noise code in the nation...
...wisely and too much, carries himself like a sophisticated Groucho Marx. Rocco Piccolomini as the General is a fine old fashioned zany with a phony moustache and a phony accent to match, both of which contribute immeasurably to his persona, as he and the posturing poetaster Bouzin (Michael Baird) flutter like moths around the corona of the coquette, Lucette (Elsie Adams...