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...Nuremberg was one of the great entrepreneurial centers of the late Middle Ages: innovative in production, much concerned with quality control, widely specialized, adventurous, rich and proud. Its burghers and nobles demanded art to match. The curators of this show have not stinted on what one might call the oo-ah side--the gold- and silverwork, the enamels and tiny carvings, the intricate chalices and aquamaniles that expressed the patrician sumptuousness of the city's religious and secular life. There is, for instance, one of the most extravagant objects in the history of European metalwork, the Schlusselfelder Ship, made...
...desired. In hundreds of reviews and in books like Axel's Castle, he introduced a wide and insular American audience to the world's leading writers and most important historical events. To the Finland Station gave depth and drama to the Russian Revolution, and his essay "Oo, Those Awful Orcs!" deflated The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit long before they became cult books. By the beginning of World War II, he had failed to examine only one contemporary figure: Edmund Wilson...
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...chapter Sagan devotes to him is reflective of the event, brimming with amusing anecdotes and quotes. The portrait of Goddard glows with Sagan's adulation of the great eccentric and pioneer. If there's any problem with these two portraits, in fact, it's that they're almost oo good--you wish you were reading a book by one of the two, instead of just a chapter about...
Rostropovich has a distinctly colloquial talent for giving instructions to the orchestra. For a crisp pizzicato, he says: "I want hear champagne corks popping." For a soft passage: "Before the sound is coming, smell some bee-oo-tee-fool flowers." For a lyrical passage: "You don't say 'I LOFF YOU!' You whisper [cuddling an imaginary violin] 'I LOFF YOU.' " For a subito forte (to play suddenly loud): "Imagine you with your girl friend. Suddenly your wife come into room. That is subito forte...