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...synagogue, the implied emptiness beneath her tiled roofs, and a rusty padlock on the gate to the garden of the Finzi-Continis. With a camera eye that has treated two oranges on the luggage rack of a grimy train compartment with as much artistic respect as the baroque splendor of the castle's interior, De Sica lingers over flowerbeds choked with weeds, the crumbling bricks in a wall, the ramshackle remains of garden furniture. As the elegy in the background rises to its fullest intensity of sorrow, his ramble through dilapidation seems to stray upwards until brought to a halt...
...head, to new figurines that are apparently the Russian equivalent of those excruciating ashtrays one is offered in Texas airports. Mother Russia has dumped the contents of her apron into the Corcoran, and the result is a heterogeneous pile of modern kitsch, late czarist elegance and early barbaric splendor, mingled with the beautifully wrought and unpretentious products of pre-Revolutionary folk artists. The less said about official post-Revolutionary folk art the better: it is characterized (except for some fine Baltic textiles) by an earnest garishness -in short, it is no better than the output of any other organized handicraft...
...there is such a thing as a surfeit of language. In a parable about Shakespeare, he writes that the dramatist, fired with the need to fill his own emptiness of spirit, created a rich panoply of kings, villains and lovers. In time, he wearied of all the pomp and splendor and abruptly returned to a plainer reality. Aged and blind, Borges may have sought a similar respite. The voice he now calls his own is actually one of many he has improvised over the years and not his most inspiring. Yet it speaks with a haunting humanity...
WAGNER: DIE MEISTERSINGER (Angel, 5 LPs). Aural splendor engineered by Meister-Conductor Herbert von Karajan...
...testy patron, Pope Julius 11. When he finished in 1512, he was justly famous as "the divine Michelangelo." Ever since, writers have gossiped about, art historians studied, painters stolen from, and crowds journeyed to Rome to stare in wonder at the most massive and majestic blend of worldly splendor and Christian message that the Renaissance produced. Even though these two volumes cost almost exactly as much as youth fare flight to Rome, plus five days in a modest pensione, they provide more information-as well as more lasting, detailed and dramatic visions of the Sistine Chapel -than any tourist visit...