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Word: orpheus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Orpheus Descending, the playwright attempts to lay bare the cancerous hatreds lurking beneath the veneer of Southern gentility...

Author: By Daley C. Haggar, | Title: Powerful Orpheus Descending Gets Down | 11/17/1994 | See Source »

...mythological Orpheus committed the grievous sin of loving too much. In the face of death and disbelief, the great musician's undying affection for his muse proved to be her demise. Williams' modern incarnation of the doomed Eurydice is Lady Torrence (played by Melanie Martinez), the proud daughter of a "wop bootlegger who burned to death in his orchard...

Author: By Daley C. Haggar, | Title: Powerful Orpheus Descending Gets Down | 11/17/1994 | See Source »

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "China Moon" at 6 p.m. "Street ofNo Return" at 8:30 p.m. " North by Northwest" at5:30 p.m. "Orpheus" at 7:30 p.m. "L.627" at 9:30p.m.12 April Tuesday

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: This Week at Harvard | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

Ekerot, swathed in black robes, his angular, bony face impossibly white, stands with Maria Casares in Jean Cocteau's "Orpheus" and the peasant in Roberto Gavalodon's "Macario" as one of the greatest visualizations of death in cinema. At one point, Jof sees the Knight playing chess with Death, and he escapes with Mia and their son. The Knight travels to his castle with several of his companios, and it is there that Death finds them. As the film closes, Jof has a vision of Death leading the Knight and his companions in a dance across the horizon...

Author: By Joel VILLASENOR Ruiz, | Title: Bergman Receives Seal of Approval | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

Whatever. I found the third option--going to the integrated Orpheus krewe parade and screaming my head off for some beads--to by favorite solution. When in doubt during Mardi Gras, go with the flow and celebrate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Of Booze, Beads and Blondes | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

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