Word: toreador
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...delicate of operas, Carmen roars on for two and a half hours in a mixture of traditional belle canto and lilting Spanish melodies. For those uninitiated into opera, Carmen is a perfect way to begin. Because it relies on a few key songs, most notably the famous "Habanera" and "Toreador's Song," the film is easy to follow. Perhaps the only drawback here is that, despite the Orchestre Nationale de France's energetic performance under conductor Lorin Maazel, Dolby remains a poor substitute for the crispness of the opera hall...
...honest," says Bombeck (for it is indeed she, the syndicated star humorist of 900 papers in the U.S. and Canada, and the baggy-toreador-pants clown of ABC'S Good Morning America), "when I started, I thought I was squirrelly. I thought it was just me. After the first columns, everyone on the block confessed it was them too." Those early columns, written in Centerville, Ohio, back in the early '60s, were not quite Corinthian, but they sure were Ermaic. Their message was that housework, if it is done right, can kill you. It was that the women...
...connoisseurs of enigma, there is A Dead Soldier by an unknown Neapolitan hand (all attributions having failed so far), which inspired Manet's Dead Toreador. The painting is a link between Caravaggio's shadow-theater and, through Salvator Rosa, the world of 19th century romanticism. It shows a young man in half-armor lying stiff and composed on the floor of a cave (some mountain charnel-house, perhaps) surrounded by rainy twilight and the glimmer of bones, with a curl of smoke still issuing from an extinguished votive lamp. A vanitas? A more personal lamentation? Impossible...
...when Erté made an electrifying appearance at the Paris Opera costume ball, he was dressed in a toreador outfit of varying shades of gold lame. "That night," he recalls, "the huge cape I designed was completely lined with fresh red roses which I tossed, one by one, at my audience as I descended the grand staircase." Though the glitter of the gold fabric has dimmed a trifle, and Erte has just turned 90, both the costume and the celebrated designer were on hand at the opening of a retrospective at the Dyansen Gallery in Manhattan, one of four major...
...Dyansen show, Erté was dressed in a black-leather dinner jacket with cobraskin lapels. Around his neck he wore his mother's gold lorgnette and a heavy gold watch chain that had belonged to his grandfather, an admiral like his father. He stood beside his old toreador outfit, which was on display, his pale blue eyes alight with reminiscences of his grand entrance at the 1926 ball. He remarked proudly that he could still fit into the costume, flower-lined cape and all. Clearly, Erté would like nothing better in his 90th year than to toss roses...