Word: saints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perimeter are a group of sharp-shooters the Crimson must contain. Dwight Pernell, a 6-ft., 1-in. junior, is averaging 28 points a game. Pernell, who averaged 15.7 points a game last year, hit 36 in the season opener against Mount Saint Mary...
...they came to know the children in their jobs as nurses or social workers. They got together for the first time as a group with the help of Rachel Rossow, who works for the state's department of children and youth services in the oxymoronic capacity of consultant and saint. Except at this monthly meeting, in one of their homes, they don't talk about what they do. They use pseudonyms and avoid the word AIDS, especially around the children. They don't want neighbors shouting epithets at them. Some of them have not told their families because they want...
...Viennese commercial theater, stuffy high art just because it is 200 years old and occasionally performed at the Met? That would be news to Mozart, who craved popular esteem and pointed to it as a proof of artistry. Are Bernstein's Candide, Gian Carlo Menotti's The Saint of Bleecker Street and George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess frivolous musicals just because they were first performed on the Great White...
Perhaps one of her graduates will become a latter-day Careme, the incomparable 19th century pastry chef to Talleyrand. All it would take is the right proportions of diligence, talent, eggs, butter and sugar, and perhaps a short prayer to St. Honore, patron saint of bakers...
Bird will have none of that. In Forest Whitaker's performance (which is softly gliding in manner, ultimately wrenching in effect), Parker is an innocent, but he is not the victim of anyone but himself. His is the innocence not of the artist saint, self-consciously trying to soar beyond conventional morality, but that of the child egoist, unconsciously trapped in a premorality where appetite -- including the one for music -- is destiny, and escape to adulthood is not an option...