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Prospero is a sage and a master of magic. Julia makes him a little bit of a world-weary sideshow carny barker...
...penned a splendid processional, all pomp and circumference, for Brian Blessed as Old Deuteronomy, the group's sage and patriarch. For Elaine Paige, who was the original West End Evita and here plays a tattered cat of the evening named Grizabella, Lloyd Webber wrote the show's first hit single, a melancholy bolero called Memory...
...York and les New-Yorkais, certainly not in French (and it's available only in French). With its information on hotels, restaurants, theaters, shopping, museums, la night life, even transportation, it will be as valuable to you as your traveler's checks. The book also contains many sage observations about the habits-some barbaric, some hugely commendable-of les Américains that may help you get back home...
...often content to characterize the notables he meets by their names alone. Their singularity rests in who they were, not in how they are described in this narrative. Similarly, Cyrus' spiritual quest for the meaning of life is rendered as a series of set-piece seminars: one sage gives his philosophy, and then Cyrus goes off to seek another, who does the same. For long stretches, the narrator seems to be conducting a survey of ancient thought a la Will Durant: "As I understand Pythagoras-and who does in his complex entirety?-he thought that the single unit...
...STORY, like so many American tales, begins with a California eccentric. Nurtured on the mysterious elixir of sunshine and smog, Californians serve as a national test-track, measuring fads, products and ideas by their unique--and often contagious--standards. The sage of the tax revolt, touchstone of the most important social and economic movement of our era, seemed to emerge half from central casting and half from the Bible--the prophet come to save a nation, live and in color. His Jeremiad condemned demon government and its lecherous grope for the tax dollar; the reverberations of Howard Jarvis's leap...