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...elegant Maurice Chevalier-like portrait of a resplendent Tom Wolfe pays homage to the dash and elan of another age. Eustace Tilley lives on! JOHN MENIG Manteno...
...says. And, in fact, her desire to get back her five children is what spurs her on. When a caseworker brought them for a visit, Moody beamed as she fixed them bologna sandwiches. Olivia, 8, dressed in her blue-and-white school uniform, painstakingly constructed a caption for a portrait of her mother: "I miss you a lot. I want to stay with you. I love you so, so much. You are the best mom I ever...
...only real tragedies occur when these physical actions distract the audience from the dialogue, as is the case with Celimene's famous portrait scene. Distractions from her audience and an intoxicated Alceste tend to draw attention from Celimene's speeches. Celimene's subsequent confrontation with the prudish Arsinoe (Catherine Crow) stands in marked contrast, since the characters receive the audience's full attention during one of literature's great cat fights...
This pseudo-biography of Cecilia Bartoli is in fact only a way for Hoelteroff to neatly package all of the opera gossip that she has collected over a lifetime of being a devoted (obsessive?) opera fan and a cultural critic for the Wall Street Journal. Although Bartoli's seductive portrait is emblazoned on the cover and her name is included in the title, Bartoli remains elusive in the narrative. Hoelterhoff followed the shy off-stage mezzo on and off from 1995 to 1997 and attempted to capture her "rags to riches" story by making a parallel between Bartoli...
...Honus Wagner card, with a portrait of the all-time great Pittsburgh Pirate shortstop, is one of the rarest of all baseball cards. An identical one was sold by Christie's in September of 1996, for $640,000--a record for any item of sports memorabilia at auction...