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So wrote the Romantic-era Polish poet Juliusz Slowacki in 1848, lines so visionary and improbable -- a Pole as Supreme Pontiff! -- that few, even in long-suffering Poland, believed they would ever come true. In 1938, however, a Polish teenager would be singled out for what would eventually be an...
As was evident by 1963, the Beatles' genius was best exhibited not in their glosses on archival rock but in Lennon's and especially McCartney's gifts for melody and harmony. In short order the Beatles' own compositions became more elaborate, and so did their studio technology, which the resources...
He attempts, with hilarious awkwardness, to court Elaine (Leslie Yahia), the dancer with the decidedly anti-romantic epithet of "Carnival Girl." In one scene, The Chairman, having had his lady love drugged and thrown into a box to be transported to his lair, asks sweetly, "Why so frosty?"
Ordinary mortals may find themselves succumbing to a kind of ennui auguste by the time they come to the end of the exhibition. But this has always been part of the experience of scaling Mount Poussin. "Some people blame him for having gone a little too far in his austere...
THIS SHOULD COME AS NO SURprise. The tensile, ravishing songs on Music for the Native Americans have been aborning, under one title or another, since Robbie Robertson's early glory days with the Band. As that seminal group's linchpin, Robertson wrote spooky, spunky and romantic valedictories to the mythic...