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...Perez). The libretto deals with Attila's siege of Italy in the 5th century and is embellished with the usual subplots of revenge, lust and political hanky-panky. What makes the opera worth the salvaging is the vigor and sheer melodic beauty of the score. Though Verdi the patriot worked at odds with Verdi the composer, the fervor of his convictions could occasionally inspire him as well. The opening aria "Let us be free," for example, is charged with the kind of youthful brio that was to come to full flower in Rigoletto, written five years later. Fresh, forcefully...
...House floor to protest Thompson's burial at Arlington: "Any other decision would have been an affront to the noble young men who have given so much of their lives to our country." Tass, the Soviet news agency, condemned the decision as "a mockery of an American patriot." Thompson's widow Sylvia offered the ultimate non sequitur: "Are they now saying that Arlington is only for political conformists...
Munk started out to make a trilogy but for some reason had to pare Eroica down to the less esthetic form of a double episode. The first, or scherzo, movement begins during the disastrous Warsaw uprising of 1944, when Polish patriots attacked their German oppressors, expecting aid from Russian forces that lay watchfully beyond the Vistula until the city was destroyed. In this film, the reluctant Reds are pretty much ignored. Munk's antihero (Edward Dziewonski) is a self-seeking womanizer who cynically boasts that he survived the occupation by "buying and selling." He shares his easy...
They had little success, as this morning's results demonstrate. Spearheaded by Andy "The Hulk" Beyer and inspired by Ex-Boston Patriot Cheerleader Maxie "Pom-Pom" Paisner, the well-oiled Crimson machine razzle-dazzled the befuddled Yalies into blue obscurity...
...come to the game with something of a misconception, thinking that we'd stay in one little spot (or at least on one side of the field) for the whole game. But high school was never like this. When we got onto the field, they told us that Patriot fans sat everywhere and we would have to cheer all around, moving from spot to spot. So we picked up our cards and our pompoms and our electric megaphones and our regular megaphones and we staggered...