Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson currently publishes on virgin newsprint. If The Crimson really wants to support recycling, it should buy recycled newsprint stock instead and help provide a market for all the old Crimson issues once readers finish them. Rob Gogan Recycling Coordinator Facilities Maintenance Department
...VIRGIN MOLLY. A soldier of dubious sexual orientation gives birth in this off-Broadway blend of bawdy barracks humor, blasphemy and brilliant surrealism...
Although the earthy Aldonza cannot understand why Don Quixote does not see that "the world is a dung heap and we are the maggots that live on it" and really cannot understand why he thinks she is a virgin, Quixote's idealism grows on her, as it does on the audience. He may be insane--he sees rags as "gossamer" and seeks to be knighted, although there have been no knights for 300 years--but he sure is happy. His unshakable faith shows us that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" and helps Aldonza become the woman that...
Among the less remembered of Haydn's vocal works are the intimate English Canzonettas, simple setting of poems by Anne Hunter that prefigure the great lieder of Schubert and his contemporaries, and the cantata "Arianna a Naxos". These are coupled on a revelatory new disc from Virgin Classics' Veritas line (number 91215), with mezzosoprano Carolyn Watkinson and Glen Wilson at the fortepiano...
...classical motifs in all their grief, exaltation and lust. The satyr clutching the drunken boy in his Bacchanal with a Wine Vat has to be the sharpest and least prudish image of homosexual desire in all Renaissance art. The mountainous folds of skirt in Mantegna's engraving of the Virgin and Child, arguably the most beautiful print made by any Italian during the Renaissance and only to be rivaled by Durer, support a protective gesture of inexpressible tenderness, in which the Madonna seems to be drawing her son back into the cave of her own body...