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...seem a bit pathetic, more fizz than bang. So it was that last Wednesday, 27 reporters and a civilian were the only ones present when the names of SARAH FERGUSON, Duchess of York, and PRINCE ANDREW, Duke of York, were on the list of 29 couples granted a decree nisi (a.k.a. a "quickie divorce") in a three-minute ceremony. The prince was holed up in his navy barracks, and the duchess was smothering her sadness in the snows of Switzerland, accompanied by daughters BEATRICE, 7 and EUGENIE, 6. "Of course, it's sad," she told reporters. Although she added that...
...cloud on the horizon, lit by the sun that never penetrates the buildings, in the last electric-blue silence of dusk. It contracts the near and the far, enchanting one's sense of space. The early De Chiricos are full of such effects. Et quid amabo nisi quodaenigma es/?(What shall I love if not the enigma?)-this question, inscribed by the young artist on his self-portrait in 1911, is their subtext...
...most valuable contributions are about coping with contemporary life, especially the decathlon of divorce (she has had two). She writes of survival as a single, raising children (her daughter Elena Niarchos is now 13) without a paternal presence, dealing with the gossip that sprouts like toadstools after the decree nisi, and deciding which friends you have left...
Panthera leopardo similis est, Nisi quod nan pipere nota...
...occasion and the musical distinctness of the two choruses. Many passages in the Vespers depend on the juxtaposition of the choruses and on a dialogue between them which can not be totally convincing with the two choruses right next to each other. Also, the psalm tune in the Nisi Dominus was disappointingly inaudible. But these are among a very small group of disappointments in what was in every respect a tasteful and powerful performance, particularly impressive in the freedom from meter that the choir attained...