Word: forman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Massachusetts House of Representatives Minority Leader Peter Forman said he hoped "that some of you go forward and put your name on the ballot...
Earlier, as athletes form Zaire marched proudly onto the field during opening ceremonies, Bob Costas gave a comprehensive description of their nation for American viewers: it was the setting for George Forman and Mohammed Ali's famous "Rumble in the Jungle." Didn't you just know there was something special about Zaire...
Lampoon members said they selected Forman not just because he is a great sports figure, but also because he is "really interesting and willing to laugh at himself...
...what is missing is a creative re-evaluation of our understanding of the composer himself. The immensely popular Milos Forman film Amadeus effectively destroyed the image it set out to falsify: the delicate porcelain infant seated at a porcelain keyboard. But as the child prodigy gives way to the giggling imp, the relationship between the reprehensible or at least unremarkable man and his great music becomes paradoxical. And, ironically, the popular conception of Mozart has been shaped by a film in which the composer is a supporting actor...
...sneering cynic, contemptuous of Mozart's "pretty" music, and the record company huckster, who likes "pretty" music because it sells, offer us two sides of the same worthless coin. They both depend on Forman's film and is assassination of Mozart the genius, the child prodigy whose music was great because it was the work of a great man. The film liberates us from what may be an illusionary image of Mozart, but leaves us with no reason to judge the music as worthwhile. The notion that the "voice of God" resides in the notes of this music carries little...