Word: venetian
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...Overhead fans languidly attempt to rearrange the air. Late afternoon heat seeps through the Venetian blinds. A tenor sax investigates the upper registers of despair. Ned Racine (William Hurt) drags voraciously on a nonstop series of cigarettes. He wears a Clark Gable mustache and a Zachary Scott hat. And one night, as a Dorsey-style orchestra plays That Old Feeling, a sleek, tanned woman in white emerges from the darkness of the band shell and into the rest of Ned's life...
Hammett took murder out of the Venetian Vase and dropped it into the alley; it doesn't have to stay there forever, but it looked like a good idea to get as far as possible from Emily Post's idea of how a well-bred debutante gnaws at a chicken wing...
Poppea, of course, was performed on original instruments, as were the week's other concerts, which included "A Venetian Festival" presented by the excellent Boston Camerata. But producing a Baroque opera is more complicated than using the right instruments. One must also decide how many of them there are to be, and which; in those days, orchestration was rarely indicated. The accepted practice is to accompany the singer with a small ensemble called the continuo, which usually consists of a harpsichord and low strings. Other parts are added occasionally to provide color or a ceremonial touch...
...style Kleenex box in LaMotta's bathroom; from the night at the Copacabana (where all the Italians of that era used to go for their big night out) to the Souvenir Special Club (there are still dozens of them all over the Bronx--they all have Venetian blinds in the front plate-glass window and they're all fronts for bookie joints); from men eating dinner in their underwear to the opera on the radio...
They met on a cold, damp Venetian morning, the wild ducks flying overhead. The hunter was 49, married, famous. The girl was 18, a dark Leonardesque virgin. "I love you more than the moon and the sky," he would later write her. "Daughter, how complicated can life be?" Very, she would answer: "I tried to remain on the razor's edge, because had I asked, you would have thrown yourself from a wall for me." Ernest Hemingway did not go quite that far to prove his love for young Adriana Ivancich, but he did write her some...