Word: marchese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In simpler times, happy stories ended with a marriage proposal or a wedding. A Mother and Two Daughters is decidedly cheerful; but living happily ever after, in the old-fashioned sense, is the very fate its heroines struggle to escape. They find themselves in a romance turned upside down: girl...
What the terrorists do to keep the children in line is to use them in their battles, and the children recognize this. Here, as in Lebanon and elsewhere, children are often deliberately placed at the head of demonstrations, marches and funeral processions. Their mere presence gives moral authority to the...
Given such a formal view of dining, Mrs. Trilling's view of young people who actually took over college buildings in the 1960s in understandably unsympathetic. But even if her essay "On the Steps of Low Library," from her book We Must March My Darlings accords little credit to the...
As galvanic as Holliday is Cleavant Derricks as a slam-bang comic belter sadly beached by new musical tides. A superb choreographer, Bennett is surprisingly skimpy on dances. Only one number, Steppin ' to the Bad Side, fully displays his stylish percussive mastery. But then, the entire evening marches to...
Strauss: Waltzes, Polkas, Marches and Overtures (Deutsche Grammophon, 3 LPs). Felicitous music by the Strauss family in sleek readings by Karajan and the Berliners.