Word: quidam
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...Mystere, in a Las Vegas casino and planning new shows in Vegas and Walt Disney World are moves that rob Cirque of its old street-theater purity. Then there are all the mimes: twee kitsch for which no enterprise can be forgiven. So with its fifth international touring show, Quidam, now in its U.S. premiere in Santa Monica, California, we should probably say so long to Soleil...
Well, we can't. Cirque still works, magnificently. From its first moments under the yellow-and-blue big top on the Santa Monica Pier, Quidam (which means "anybody" in Latin) pulls the audience out of domesticity into the ethereum of its wizardly wit. A man and a woman sit in metal chairs, he reading a paper, she knitting. A child sits before them. Then through a door comes a large figure out of a Magritte painting: long overcoat, umbrella, bowler hat, no head. The child takes the creature's magic hat, puts it on--and dreams the three-hour show...
Fuit intus rumor quidam sternutamenti similis et deinde denuo silentium...
...homines qui ad spinosam Lapparum tutelam elevati estis. Quae enim saga Radcliffiensis, quis magus Harvardianus pollenti pectore nunc praesentire potest quam mira et magna Plautus et Bacchus et fervidus ille puer et solutis Gratiae zonis in campo et area nostria iamiam effecturi sint? Nam hac in fabula Plautina est quidam filius qui scortillum venustum perdite amat; est fili pater, decrepitus senex, qui una cum filio non modo potat sed etiam amicam ductat atque clam uxorem suo animo volup facit; est denique eiusdem fili mater quae victrix virum accubantem cum corona amplexum amicam conspicit et - o imperium uxoriosum - e lustris rapit...
...Italy next year, at the general elections. Yet De Gasperi, for all his willingness to compromise, would not compromise with Fascists. After lunch, he sat down and wrote a polemic that appeared next morning on the front page of the Christian Democratic Il Popolo under the signature "Quidam de Populo" ("One of the People"). Said De Gasperi: he would have no truck with the neo-Fascist party, which attacks basic principles of democracy, and "glorifies the regime that has gone...