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...have to be happy and enjoy life but that does not mean you have to fool around and get drunk all the time. O.K., I will get drunk once, and then I will have a hangover, so I will say, "Ah, come on, I am not going to do that again." Or you might love three or four women at the same time, but is that good? No. This is the way you have to censor yourself and make choices that bring you the most happiness. You can always find things to be happy about. I try to be satisfied...
...wisest character in King Lear is the Fool, an observation few statesmen notice until the work of comic artists brings them down. In Masters of Caricature (Knopf; 240 pages; $25) the productions of savage and subtle comedians from William Hogarth to David Levine pass in review. Ministers of the 19th century wither under Daumier's derision; Thomas Nast sweeps out Tammany Hall; George Grosz annihilates Germany between the wars. But Historian and Art Critic William Feaver's text also makes room for such sly performers as Sir John Tenniel, who created a Wonderland for Alice, and Sir Leslie...
...STANDARD BY WHICH ALL THOROUGHBRED DRIVING MACHINES WILL BE MEASURED . . . I WILL NEVER LIE TO YOU . . . I AM NOT A CROOK. I WILL BALANCE THE FEDERAL BUDGET . . . WE'LL GET MARRIED AS SOON AS THE DIVORCE COMES THORUGH . . . such episodes leave a man feeling like a fool in the morning they are the effusions of the moment, wild blossoms with a short but extravagant life...
...ultimately, the awkward script undermines Purlie's message. Oddly placed one-liners mar serious moments; incongruous scenes paint Purlie a fool or a liar after his most moving and far-reaching sermons. The grand climax exemplifies this confusion. Purlie, finally ensconced in his church, passionately orates the beauties of being Black...before his first integrated audience. The delivery is emotional, the sentiment compelling, except when one tries to reconcile it with Charlie Cotchipee's presence and with the wierd shenanigans that made Purlie's dream come true...
...field so competitive and demanding.) He filched the style and flavor of classical composers and used them in his own works. Fortunately, he admitted his crimes--for musicologists' sakes--in pieces like "Variations on a Theme of Corelli in the Style of Giuseppe Tartini." But he sometimes tried to fool other composers by publishing old-style pieces under the names of 18th century composers (for example, "Andantino by Padre Martini.") Kreisler saves face by striking a balance between technicality and musicianship. Unlike Paganini, Wieniawski, Ysaye and other violin virtuosi-composers, he has warm melodies, sweet harmonies...