Word: wagnerism
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...space of a single seven-day period in mid-January, I paid a final visit to an exhibition of Seurat's drawings at the Museum of Modern Art, took two children there the next day to see a show by the sculptor Martin Puryear, attended the opening night of Wagner's Die Walkure at the Metropolitan Opera, caught a couple of movies, including an old Robert Mitchum vehicle at an Otto Preminger film festival, and scored tickets to the revival of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming on Broadway. (Long Pinteresque pause here.) On the seventh day I rested...
...that nothing can resist the gilded wrecking ball of the developers. But the struggle to find some way out will determine whether New York remains a city where you can see Seurat, Pinter and Wagner all in one week, or become a place where the only music that counts is the jingle of coins...
...Hummer, as well as taking other things not mentionable in this publication. I mean, Opera’s been screaming for this stuff.) Plus that Al Pacino pre-game speech would make for a heck of an aria. Heavy subject matter, outrageous scenes, and extremely long? Wagner...
...sunny Friday morning two summers ago, Daniel Vasella got quite a wake-up call. Outside his lakefront home near Zug, Switzerland, gigantic speakers blasted Wagner's Gotterdammerung loud enough to rattle the windows. From across the lake, several boats carrying protesters converged on his house. A helicopter delivered a barrel marked with a skull and crossbones to one of the boats. Baffled, Vasella watched as the barrel was ferried to shore and plunked on his lawn...
...leading five wins on the mound for the Columbia baseball team.Senior center Ben Nwachukwu does not mess around. Point guard Patrick Foley is an electric playmaker, and coach Joe Jones is knee-deep in wings who can shoot. The Lions may make City college hoops (apologies to Manhattan and Wagner and the like) relevant come March.3. YALEThe thing with Yale is you can mark it down for five or six wins at minimum in the claustrophobic, noisy John J. Lee Ampitheater. The Elis have the best home-court advantage in the league, better even than Penn?...