Word: legend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Libertine, blasphemer, aristocratic scapegrace, eternal anarchist, the Don Juan of legend still enthralls and disturbs the Western consciousness. He is a figure of mythic proportions, larger than the countless works of art that have tried to contain him, from Moliere and Goldoni through Byron and Shaw. The fascination of his enigmatic psychology is apparently inexhaustible. He has been seen as a Punch-like comic character; as a tragic hero, or Nietzschean rebel against God; as a walking textbook of sexual pathology. He survives all interpretations. He will survive even this one: an opulent but confused and wrongheaded adaptation...
...Venice and to some stunning Palladian villas in the countryside around Vicenza. Never mind that Ingmar Bergman's 1975 version of Mozart's The Magic Flute showed what enchanting results a modest, studio-bound production could achieve. Never mind, too, that the locale of the Don Juan legend and the setting of Mozart's opera is not Italy but Spain. The real problem is that in taking the work out of the opera house, Losey has taken a lot of the opera out of the work...
...conquistadors, the legend was a promise of fabled riches-a great lost city or a temple filled with treasures or perhaps an entire mountain of gold. Indeed, El Dorado (Spanish for "the gilded one") may well have had a basis in fact. Folklore holds that Colombia's Muisca Indians, who dwelt in the highlands near present-day Bogotá, installed their kings by dusting their naked bodies with gold and then washing them in nearby Lake Guatavita. To complete the ritual, they dropped gold and jewels into the holy waters as offerings to their...
Kevin Crane '73, heir to the Edward Crane '37 political legend, ran just well enough across the city to insure his return to the council. He may not be building a constituency, but there are just enough voters in the city who recognize his name...
...revelation that may damage his candidacy. Frisoli, who has run front page ads in local papers for weeks, is a rookie councilor fighting to keep the same support he had a year ago. Crane, labelling himself a councilor for the entire city, is the son of Cambridge political legend Edward Crane, a lineage that still garners much support...