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...window dressing for the mausoleum he runs, but her strength and grace have touched him. For a crucial moment, on the face of actor Ralph Fiennes, evil pauses to consider itself. Could I have a decent feeling? Could I love this base creature, this beautiful thing, this Jewess? Just as quickly, and subtly, Fiennes' face tells us no. Goeth's fists flail out, not so much at Hirsch as at the recognition that he is doomed to solitude by his wickedness...
...life of paint. The banner on its pole outside the tent and the whipping linear rhythms of Judith's head ribbon seem blown by an actual wind. And the undercurrent of strangeness is increased by the way Mantegna reduces Holofernes to two anatomical fragments: his head, which the avenging Jewess is placing in a bag, and the sole of his foot, which sticks up above the horizon of the bed end. Mantegna had a liking for feet -- the same dead soles confront your eye in the most famous of his images, The Lamentation over the Dead Christ. His willingness...
Margarete, the blond personification of ideal German womanhood, and Shulamite, the cremated Jewess who is also the archetypal Beloved of the Song of Solomon, interweave in Kiefer's work in a haunting and oblique way. Margarete's presence is signaled, like a motif in music, by long wisps of golden straw, while Shulamite's emblem is charred substance and black shadow. Hence Kiefer's tragic image of Shulamite, 1983: a Piranesian perspective of a squat, fire-blackened crypt, the paint laid thick in an effort to convey the ruggedness of the masonry, whose architectural source (as Mark Rosenthal points...
...Life, Erica/Isadora is slipping out of the Wing/Jong Upper West Side co-op apartment for the last time, leaving the doctor to his patients and as Isadora says, "his hatred of women." Writes the heroine: "I was on the lam, an exile from a bad marriage, a wandering Jewess; a lifelong New Yorker heading Wes ... I was off to meet a lover and my destiny." In Jong's wall-poster philosophy, today is the first day of the rest of your life...
Halevy: La Juive, highlights (Sopranos Martina Arroyo and Anna Moffo, Tenor Richard Tucker, Bass Bonaldo Giaiotti, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Antonio de Almeida conducting; RCA, $5.98). First performed in 1835, La Juive (The Jewess) is grand in style, massive in its demands for choral, orchestral and solo forces and spectacular in stage effects; in accordance with the Parisian fondness for such stuff, it was one of the favorites of 19th century French opera. Set in 1 5th century Switzerland, the story concerns the persecution of Eleazar, a Jewish goldsmith, and his foster daughter Rachel. Before his execution, Eleazar...