Word: gorgeousity
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...book, is something else. It is, in the best sense, a travesty, a masquerade, a cross-dressing comedy of eros. Yet moviegoers do believe in Orlando, in the breadth of its canvas, the immediacy of its emotions, the palliative power of its wit. They can swim in its gorgeous images: the fruit seen below a sheath of ice, the oars dipping into dark water, the fearful maiden rushing between high hedges and across battlefields. They surely believe in Swinton as the pearl and perfection of any gender; her poise and gravity, and the drama of her pale face under...
...Brahms. On her latest Deutsche Grammophon album, though, she harnesses two modern violin concertos and tames them both. In Alban Berg's ineffable 1935 two-movement concerto, a requiem for the daughter of Alma Mahler Gropius, Mutter evokes the music's intense, passionate suffering. In Wolfgang Rihm's gorgeous Time Chant, written for her last year, Mutter's splendid fiddle soars ethereally over the Chicago Symphony led by James Levine. Can it be that, as the millennium dawns, 20th century music is not so tough after...
...Falls and the rest of his teammates, except for Barr, lead their league in dalliance with the baseball annies who show up in the team hotel after away games. The players are prodigious sexists, though so are the annies, and nobody knows it better than Ellie Jay, the gorgeous sportswriter who follows Barr's team. Her first day covering another club was legendary. The entire team greeted her in the locker room, stark naked except for Halloween masks. Ellie made her rep forever by asking "O.K., which one of you little pricks struck out in the seventh with the bases...
America thinks of itself as a diverse society -- a "gorgeous mosaic," in the words of New York City Mayor David Dinkins; a quilt of many ethnic and racial patches, in a favorite metaphor of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's. But the figures of the 1990 census, only now crunched, suggest that the demographic surface of life in the U.S. is a lot smoother than one thinks. So is the cultural surface, unless the politicians ruffle...
...motto might be, "Give us your women, your gays, your (fill in your oppression here)." Sometimes you've got to be proud of a country that proudly builds its own gorgeous mosaic...