Word: charivari
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...phan Landry) receives a big red box. He opens it and pop!, out springs Jack, a lithe, saucy, strutting trickster (Adam Mike Tyus). This Jack-be-limber cues an instant circus fantasia: 16 scamps in parade regalia (gold jackets, white pants, red fezzes) who launch into a charivari - the kind of tumbling act that populates your most soaring dreams, where you feel graceful and defy gravity. At the rear of the stage there's a three-story bandstand, which goes unnoticed until one of the chorines dives from its top, maybe 40 feet high, into a soft tarpaulin held...
...terrible a nature as its name would imply, and there is no good reason why it should not accomplish much good here if the future numbers are up to the standard of the one we have seen. It is our sincere hope that many more numbers of the 'Cambridge Charivari' will be published, that the pictures of the succeeding issues will be as good as those of the first, and, finally, that the Lampoon will become one of the permanent institutions of the College...
...diffusion of Daumier's satirical prints has been such that they tend to overshadow the rest of his work. Toiling against unrelenting deadlines, working sometimes on eight stones at a time, he made literally thousands of them for magazines like Le Charivari. In fact there were only two moments when he was able to give his time entirely to drawing and painting for their own sakes, producing images that were not designed for mass reproduction. The first was just after the 1848 revolution, when press censorship put him out of work. The second was after 1860, when he was fired...
...some 80 drawings and watercolors, curated by art historian John Hayes, that will be seen through April 8 and in Pittsburgh and Baltimore later this year. The show samples without fatigue the best of Rowlandson's work and includes several of his real masterpieces, notably Vauxhall Gardens, 1784, that charivari of Georgian London in pursuit of pleasure: fops, soldiers, beggars, rowdies, beauties, literary celebrities, the high and the low jostling and quizzing one another, each fresh, distinct and full of life...
...charivari of Georgian England from a satirist's hand...