Word: minstrelling
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...down to the last parasol. There wasn't a bumbershoot of any description on the Lyric stage. No fans either. They were replaced with tokens and totems of the new pan-Orientalism: signs that blink out Sony, Seiko and, inevitably, Coca-Cola; NankiPoo (Tenor Neil Rosenshein), the wandering minstrel, transformed into a rocker with a red guitar; Yum-Yum (Soprano Michelle Harman-Gulick) in a flared short skirt and visor cap, giggling and jawing gum like a Tokyo Valley Girl; and the Mikado himself (Bass Donald Adams), arriving onstage, with all appropriate ceremony, in a Datsun...
Surely Thomas Ball deserves better, and it is up to the Boston Art Commission, Which will rule on the controversy later this month, to either leave the statue in Park Square or select a new location. Emancipation, along with other artistic anachronisms, like the blackface minstrel movies of the 1920s, best belong safely tucked away in the dusty halls of a museum, carefully preserved as a record of the past. And Mr. Lincoln, were he still around today, certainly would take no offense; as he admitted back in 1863, "I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice...
...extremis, Bech becomes a wandering minstrel for the U.S. State Department. He junkets to Venezuela, Korea, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, shamefacedly giving a speech...
...favored few took their reserved seats inside Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion and fascinated onlookers gathered before outdoor monitors to view the auctions of untried yearlings for stratospheric sums. In one wild bidding session, a world-record filly price of $2.1 million was paid for a daughter of The Minstrel. After four tense evenings, traders had ponied up $36.1 million for 204 colts and fillies...
...operation is a first-rate staff. Irish Trainer Vincent O'Brien, 65, for instance, is one of those souls who commune with Thoroughbreds somewhere beyond speech. O'Brien's canny ways brought the team its first big season in 1977: the $200,000 stallion The Minstrel won four major European races and was syndicated at $9 million. Pat Hogan is Sangster's "salt of the peat" conformation expert, which means he specializes in assessing the look of a horse. The instinctual Hogan once told Sangster to spend $200,000 on an undistinguished-seeming foal...