Word: wagnerians
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...conventions. Edward Weston did this with closeups on natural detail-the ribbed flank of a sand dune, the tiny mesas of worn rock surface at Point Lobos. Ansel Adams, the most popular of all American photographers, succeeded in turning the remote stasis of 19th century topographical photos into a Wagnerian drama of events...
...Metropolitan's show, imported after a successful five-month run at the British Museum, offers us a different sort of Viking: the monster chez lui, a more conscientious and stolid fellow, the rude ancestor of the modern Volvo executive. He does not even have a horned helmet -a Wagnerian embellishment on the plain iron cap he actually wore in battle. He plows his acres; he makes crude wooden boxes with crude iron tools. His wife has a comb and looks like Bjorn Borg in drag. Living in a permanent crisis economy, he believes in bullion as a hedge against...
...rejected idealist is thus readied for the fleshy pleasures, and the stage is set for one of the author's most durable themes: libertinism and its comic consequences. Columbine matures as a perennial nymph, but she pales beside Snooky von Sickle, the brewery heiress of Wagnerian dimensions with whom Peachum shares many a back seat and shadowy glade. Yet love has its mysteries: when Peachum recalls having made unkind comments about Columbine's "doorbells," he feels a pang of remorse that is followed immediately by a twinge of desire. Peachum's entanglements are due to varying intentions...
...heated. She also kept writing, encouraged by a couple of musicians around the studio like Keyboard Player Ralph Schuckett, who helped her with musical structure, co-produced her first album and now shares a brownstone in Brooklyn with her. In Heroes of Yesterday, there are echoes of the mock-Wagnerian melodramas produced by Phil Spector for '60s girl groups such as the Crystals and the Ronettes, but Shipley's lyrics try to go deeper, attempt to capture the ebbing of a lost childhood ("Born too late, born too late . . ."). With a little luck, however, Shipley may have come...
...crusty pride-have made Still a somewhat mythic figure in American painting and put him in a position to dictate terms to any museum in the U.S. So it is with his current retrospective at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, a panorama of 79 huge canvases, Wagnerian in ambition and theme...