Word: knave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since Lewis Carroll published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865, his Alice has stolen more hearts than the Knave did tarts. No more ardent Wonderlander exists than California Pianist and Composer David Del Tredici, 41, who has been in thrall to the book's "effortless whimsy" ever since, at age eleven, he sang the role of the White Rabbit in a school musical based on Alice. He has spent the past decade composing a series of works based on various Alice adventures. When several new orchestral works were commissioned for the U.S. Bicentennial, Del Tredici was ready...
...begins with Soprano-Narrator Barbara Hendricks, 29, a Juilliard graduate, reciting the opening lines of the penultimate Alice chapter (the trial of the Knave for stealing the Queen's tarts) and ends with Alice's exit from Wonderland. As the orchestra loudly warms up, the White Rabbit bellows "Silence in the court!" and the instruments' din comically subsides. Then, for about an hour, the score seesaws between the basic narrative and funny, parodic arias that are often sweetly melodic and easy...
...saggy-jowled, I know what it's like to be poor days, knows his subject extraordinarily well. He begins by informing the class that he does not. "Anybody who tells you he's an expert in politics," he says, "is either a fool or a knave, and probably both." Then he launches into a lesson on the basics. Get a good public relations director. Figure out how big a role your family will play. Get a good photograph taken-and never, never at the end of a tough day. "Have someone on your own campaign do an opposition...
Carter, like Spillane's Mike Hammer, is a homicidal knave, and in dealing with him the film takes on the very qualities it is trying to portray. It wallows in its ceaseless bloodbath and emerges like its protagonist - sleazy and second-rate...
Ironclad Chastity. As the autumnal Henry, Richard Burton is every other inch a king. In appearance he is as scruffy as a knave; his justly celebrated voice is restricted to self-analytical lists: "I'm bitter, I'm envious, I'm dangerous, I'm malicious." Quite. But regal? Not quite...