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...costumes that Jane Greenwood has fashioned are lovely, though sometimes a bit late for the period. The shipwrecked sibling twins Sebastian and Viola (disguised as a pageboy) wear Cavalier rather than Elizabethan dress, similar to the "Blue Boy" garb Greenwood provided for the 1966 production. Unwisely she made the Clown's outfit insufficiently differentiated from those of the rest of Olivia's household...
...Final Problem, Rosenberg argues, Holmes' description of Moriarty's academic achievements are thinly disguised parallels of Nietzsche's attainments. A later Conan Doyle criminal, Col. Sebastian Moran (see The Adventure of the Empty House), is given Nietzsche's physical characteristics (a high forehead, "the brow of a philosopher," and a huge grizzled mustache. With the vitality of a dog grinding a juicy bone, Rosenberg goes on to extract from the 60 Sherlock Holmes stories strong influences from Oscar Wilde, Catullus, Robert Browning, Racine, Poe, Mary Shelley, George Sand and even Jesus Christ...
...novel, Confessions of a Mask. "Something within me responded to the darkened room and the sickbed," he wrote elsewhere. He was fascinated, too, by death, which for him possessed an erotic attraction. His first sexual experience seems to have occurred while he was gazing at a portrait of St. Sebastian, body pierced with arrows. Years later, with typically gorgeous effrontery, he posed for a photo in which he himself was St. Sebastian. Poshlust again. What rescued Mishima from merely exotic decadence was his creative vigor and intelligence. He found a larger context for his obsessions in the Japanese martial tradition...
...book, Sagan has dusted off two characters from Castle in Sweden, a play she wrote in 1963, and transported them to France. They are the twins Sebastian and Eleanor van Milhem, a leggy, radiantly idle, thoroughly decadent pair. In Scars on the Soul she permits them to coast through the usual romantic adventures, playing around with love, despair and death. From time to time, however, she interrupts the narrative with private memories and uneasy rhetorical questions. Samples: "Who reads Proust?" and "What about you, dear readers, what are your lives like...
Steamy Tale. Another tumid exercise in staged libidinousness is Sebastian, by the company's resident choreographer, Vincente Nebrada. This is a steamy little tale of a Moorish slave in 17th century Venice who loves a courtesan who loves his owner-prince, and who is eventually skewered to death by the prince's evil sisters in the Venetian equivalent to a voodoo ceremony. As the luckless, lovelorn slave, an expressive young dancer named Christopher Aponte is called upon to perform a sensuous duet with the courtesan's red cloak, leaving the unfortunate impression that he is secretly...