Word: piccoloed
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...Divine Comedy he was working on at his death. Pasolini always wrote in parables, but in his later work his symbols become estranged from any reality. "The Divine Mimesis" is full of wornout catchphrases of the Italian left; the souls Pasolini-Dante meets in his Inferno are "conformisti piccolo-borghesi" (petit-bourgeois conformists), and their sins are "il conformismo," "la volgarita," "la moralita." Pasolini always had a fondness for the antithesis, for the oxymoron; but in his recent writings the language degenerates into phrases that are cliches before they are coined: "the masses have chosen as their religion the condition...
...something of a literary genre. In his best novel, Blood of the Lamb, Peter DeVries wrote obliquely about his daughter's leukemia. Stewart Alsop collected nerve and wits long enough during a remission to write Stay of Execution about his own plight before he died. Football Player Brian Piccolo's death became first a fond memoir by his friend Gale Sayers, then a TV film called Brian's Song. Now Freelance Writer Doris Lund offers Eric, a book about her son's successful four-year struggle to live courageously as this disease slowly destroyed...
Brian's Song. A television movie repeat about Gale Sayers and his friendship with Brian Piccolo, a teammate on the Chicago Bears who died of cancer. Absolutely compelling story. Ch. 5, 8:30 p.m., 1 1/2 hours...
This brings us back to that old puzzler, the "very difficult" problem of ethics. In the end that is what Wedding in Blood is all about. Audran and Piccolo are not just common lovers, they are the bourgeois world's version of Everywoman and Everyman. They are the passionate living in a passionless world. They want to be alive, to be rewarded, to be fulfilled--they want to be everything the great mass of desperates are not. Very difficult indeed. Certainly a problem that you can't run away from...
...Baroque-sized orchestra was capable of handling the rigorous program, displaying remarkable musicianship for undergraduates. With the small group used for the Bach suite the sound wasn't as full-bodied as contemporary audiences expect. And the piccolo trumpets--though excellent--occasionally sacrificed mellowness for clarity, thus reducing the string sound. The first movement, with its brisk tempo, was thoroughly satisfying; Baker never allowed the fugue-like orchestration of the melody line to confuse the theme...