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MOZART'S MAGIC FLUTE, that innocently expansive, made-up fairy tale cut with slices of Masonic mysticism, is probably the most durable of all great operas: you could mount it in a barn or a basilica with equal success. It's such a hodge-podge of childish humor, didactic verses, and obscure allegory that no director's grand interpretation is likely to encompass its entirety. In his film version, Ingmar Bergman--no shirker from directorial complexity--paid tribute to the sufficiency of Mozart's music to bear The Magic Flute's inconsistencies; he presented a filmed record of a workmanlike...
...recent party in a Kirkland House entry, a group of well-dressed and beautifully made-up women appeared at the door. As the men swung their heads to survey the newcomers, the Harvard women nudged each other and pronounced with great disdain, "The Wellesley contingent is here...
THERE ARE PUBLIC FIGURES whose magnetism attracts all the uncharged particles of hostility in the world and gives them a direction. For some, David Bowie is everything that is wrong with '70s youth culture--the noise, the drugs, the posing--presented as an orange-haired, made-up androgyne. His dabbling beyond pop music simply stretched his dilettantism further than anyone else's, and the dissipated exile he played in The Man Who Fell to Earth sitting drunk at poolside in the film's final scene seemed his logical resting place. To at least one defender of high kultur writing...
Subtitled "A Sort of a Love Story," Still Life With Woodpecker tangentially concerns itself with the romantic woes of Leigh-Cheri Furstenberg-Barcelona, a princess from some made-up nation who resides in exile in Seattle with her parents. Having concluded that World Causes lend meaning and satisfaction to life (love had given her only an abortion and a miscarriage), Leigh-Cheri journies to Maui to attend the Geo-Therapy Care Fest, where she meets the other mouthpiece for Robins's thoughts, Bernard Mickey Wrangle, alias the Woodpecker. Wrangle, who has come to Maui to bomb the Fest, teaches...
...Fayer's not the only top-notch swimmer the Crimson's lost. In fact, the entire four-women contingent that made-up last year's Ivy Champion relay squad is gone...