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...more essential matters -- what sort of training he had in Spain, what paintings influenced him as a young man -- little has been found. We know more about his shopping lists than his personality, not because Ribera was self-effacing (you would infer, from the work, a character of singular, even uncomfortable, vividness) but because artists in the 17th century rarely left the paper trail they...
...making a lyric seem like a conversation and a melody like the true rhythm of the heart. With the Ralph Sharon Trio playing suavely behind him, Bennett can even make over Nancy, an early and particularly personal hit that evokes the memory of Sinatra's first wife, into a singular valentine to first love. Working his way up to One for My Baby, Bennett takes a big chance with a brash, almost R.-and- B. tempo. Sinatra's definitive version was an envoi to a lost love and a derailed life; Bennett's is a swagger, a roguish kiss...
Morrissey used to possess the singular ability to make his obsessive self-pity entertaining. He moaned so pathetically and bemoaned his loveless fate with such vicious, sarcastic glee, that even the most navel-gazing songs retained a sense of humor. Since his split with the inspired Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, he's relied more and more on this lyrical inventiveness...
...rich, messy lives to tidy summations. Why should this one be any different? After all, no postwar American literary institution has had a more profound cultural influence than Mad magazine, and William Gaines, the aggressively idiosyncratic impresario who launched and then ran the magazine for four decades, is a singular character in 20th century American publishing -- the anti-Luce...
...Magic Flute play in the background to the Leverett House performance, the real thing takes place in the Lowell dinning hall. This year's Lowell House Opera production aims, according to the program notes, to uncover "the plethora of possibilities in the opera...without trying to create a singular impression," while simultaneously offering "a dawn to dusk retrospective of Western civilization...