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...between consciousness and holocaust, sex and death. But whereas The White Hotel connected these themes with a pulse all its own, Ararat, like the Armenian landscape from which it is drawn, is a much drier work. The tremendous stream of poetry in The White Hotel, the sexually surreal "Don Giovanni" portion as well as the deafening violence of the Babi Yar testimony, collaborated to overwhelm the reader. This sensory overload created a flow or wave of feeling, which after it had receded, left the reader feeling a part of the world which he had just experienced--the world of Freud...
SENTENCED. Giovanni Vigliotto, 54, (authorities say he is really Fred Jipp, 47), flea-market merchant who made a habit, and a living, out of wooing, wedding and then fleecing his wives (he claims to have married 105 women in the past 20 years); to 34 years in state prison, the maximum sentence, plus a $336,000 fine, for his February conviction on bigamy and fraud charges brought by one of the 105, Patricia Ann Gardiner; in Phoenix...
...background, diseases of the body, instabilities of the soul, Thanatos and Eros beating the big bass drum. One recognizes in the Magdalens and Madonnas the women that visitors like John Evelyn wrote of, "generally well-featured, but excessively libidinous." Even still lifes by artists like Paolo Porpora and Giovanni Battista Recco have the swollen intensity of painting infatuated with the surface of the world. However, Recco's picture of objects on a kitchen table, grouped around the visual pivot of a Delft dish, is so exquisitely designed and so full of severe visual rhymes and harmonies as to rival...
Beefy, none too tall and often clad in blue jeans and tennis shoes, Flea Market Merchant Giovanni Vigliotto seemed an unlikely Casanova. Yet in a Phoenix courtroom, Vigliotto submitted a list of 105 women from 18 states and nine foreign countries he claims to have wooed and wed over the past 20 years, some of them more than once and all without benefit of intervening divorces. A jury of eight men and four women, impressed with his stamina but not his style, last week convicted Vigliotto on charges of bigamy and fraud in his marriage to Patricia Ann Gardiner...
...greatest of maestros should have proved himself in symphonic music as well as in opera. Levine has not done that. Sir Georg Solti has. If you compare their respective recordings of Mozart's Don Giovanni, you will discern how superior Solti's conducting...