Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decree on procedures to be followed when a Pope dies implicitly rules it out. Presumably, the Cardinals reason, in the 20th century autopsies are undignified and unnecessary. That was not always true in the papacy's more turbulent past. As recently as the 19th century, a Roman nobleman, Prince Don Agostino Chigi, reported that an autopsy was performed on the body of Pius VIII in 1830 after his sudden death...
...some extent, the connection can be made: both plays are about romances, both involve the relationship between a rather stupid nobleman and his bright, if not well-born, valet, and both go through intricate plots before the romance proves successful. There, however, the connection ends...
...danced a succession of new roles in La Sylphide, La Fille Mal Gardée, Les Sylphides. Her first Giselle in May 1975 was a major triumph. Gelsey's peasant girl seemed halfway toward spirithood even before she falls in love with and is betrayed by Baryshnikov's charming, careless nobleman. Pure spirit in the second act, she had gossamer lightness, nearly unbearable youthful poignance. The part confirmed her arrival as a romantic ballerina...
Byron may have inspired the image of the archromantic. But it was François-René de Chateaubriand-writer, politician and Olympian lover-who lived it. Born in 1768 to a minor Breton nobleman, he came of age with the French Revolution. By the time he was 24, the Chevalier Chateaubriand had already journeyed to America in search of noble savages and exotic flora...
Most of the supporting roles are competent, but lack individual character. Gaughan and Richard Blumenfeld as Jasperino both and a little spice to their scenes; but the real surprise comes from Peter Knapp as Alsemero, the nobleman Beatrice really loves. Knapp is a sleeper, underacting so much that he is almost unnoticeable for most of the play. But when he learns of his beloved's infidelity, he seems to come out of nowhere and shake the beams in the Leverett theater's ceiling with his bellow, "You are a whore...