Word: forme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...required to learn things that people take for granted here, and which, if they go unlearned, prevent us form completing our work. However, students rarely complain about a cultural don't know how to find Vanserg on the day Expos starts...
...there another art form that attracts so many sublime sufferers and so many nuts?" asks Manuella Hoelterhoff in her new book Cinderella & Company: Backstage at the Opera with Cecilia Bartoli. The narrative, loosely based on a two-year period in the life of the world famous mezzo-soprano, provides a way for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hoelterhoff to expose all the craziness of the opera world. Her readable anecdotes of eccentric divas, push managers and overweight sopranos give a "behind-the-scenes" picture of opera that will delight everyone from the hard-core opera buffs who live for this...
...original form, Richard III is essentially a play about a man killing his way to the throne and then being killed himself by the rival claimants. The way each character rises up in life before being assasinated creates the tragedy that makes the play a great work. It is entrancing to watch the plot tighten around the characters, made easy targets by their incapacity to fathom the extent of Richard's evil...
...past lovers: "Dear Jonathan / I likedyou too much / I used to be attracted to boys whowould lie to me and think solely about themselves,/ Dear Marcus / You rocked my world / You had acharismatic way about you." Yet, the song wouldn'tmake sense if the music didn't complement theunusual form. Each "letter" seems packaged in itsown mini-song--the verses (seeminglyintentionally) never...
Indeed, none of the songs on the album seem theleast bit circular. "Joining You," for instance,offers us a rush of hypotheticals: "If we were ourfutures / If we ere our futures / If we were ourdefenses I'd be joining you." Instead of thestandard verse-chorus-verse form, Alanis, modifiesthe verses with added harmonies and sets eachrefrain against a new set of lyrics. Themusic--unlike some of the redundant tracks onJagged Little Pill--never stagnates, neverbores...