Word: wagnerism
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Thomas R. Wagner...
...Peter F. Wagner...
...Gautam Das, producers Ron Moler and Bob Israel, and presented by Raju Shared Patel in an Aspect Ratio/Twin Continental Production, fills Bachelor Party with a potpourri of literary and classical allusions. Rick (Tom Hanks) is a soon-to-be-wedded bus driver who invokes the love-death imagery of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, the death-as voyage image of classical Greek mythoiogy, and the transportation theme of his own Police Academy. All at the same time...
Baldly summarized, Wilson's work can sound arbitrary and pretentious. But far from being a melange of odds and sods, the CIVIL warS is a tightly knit, carefully planned work that uses visual, verbal and musical images the way Wagner used leitmotivs: to unify and clarify complex relationships among ideas and to weave of his various strands a single tapestry. The tree of the first "knee play" is transformed into the astronauts' ladder and finally into the oaken Lincoln of the last act. The detritus of war - the toppling bodies of mortally stricken soldiers, the bombed-out city...
...Crimson spoke with Koch during his recent visit to Harvard, when the mayor addressed the Institute of Politics forum, led by former Deputy Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr.'s study group, and made an imprompu sweep through Square book stores...