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...TORCH SONG TRILOGY...
...idea that such a transcendent being might have had a context would have been anathema to the baroness, but her collection became the core of the Guggenheim Museum. Meanwhile, the blazing torch of devotion has turned into a curatorial flashlight, poking abruptly here and there amid the somewhat musty recesses of the Jugendstil. Such are the sorrows of no longer believing that art and religion are the same thing...
...keeping in a safe for years, waiting for the right interpreter to come along. Those songs became the basis of a treasurable record, The Unknown Kurt Weill, which has been nominated this year for two Grammy awards. Says Stratas: "Somewhere we were both aware she was handing over a torch, her reason for living...
...wild and drunken noble, the Duke of Orleans, seized a torch and, shouting "Who are they? We'll soon find out!" lit the string of mummers. A young duchess, throwing her robe over the king, extinguished the sovereign, while one flaming courtier bit through the rope and dived "like a flaming comet" throught the window into a cistern in the court. The other four "whirled hither and thither through the horrified mob, struggling with one another, fighting with the flames, cursing, shrieking with pain," as Walsh describes it. Although the flames at last burnt out, none of the four maskers...
Rehkamp, classmate Lisa Griffin, Charles Hagedorn '83, and Rob Faulkner '83 will carry the torch for Harvard today and tonight, figure skating alongside sundry international skating luminaries such as David Santee and Toller Cranston in "An Evening With Champions"--Eliot House's annual benefit for the Jimmy (children's cancer--against it, of course) Fund...