Category: people

Robert W. Gutman’s “Wagner book, which placed its subject in the larger intellectual context of his times, infuriated idolaters, for whom the master could do no wrong.”

“Speaking in Athens, where the works are going on public display for the first time from Friday, Ai said that although he had seen and experienced extreme and violent conditions in China, he ‘could never have imagined conditions like this’.”

“To an earlier generation of Americans, and to many colleagues and competitors, he was regarded as the best television journalist of the Vietnam era, an adventurer whose vivid reports exposed the nation to the hard realities of what the writer Michael J. Arlen, in the title of his 1969 book, called ‘The Living Room War.'”

“In fusing two cultures, Mr. Ninagawa injected modern music, Buddhist imagery, indigenous Japanese flora and teeming spectacles into classic plays. Yet he remained faithful to the text.”

Georgian bass Paata Burchuladze: “I am forced to leave the sweet and good life of an opera career and go into politics. This is not because I’m a good person or politician, but because the country is in a very bad condition. … We will have strong representation in parliament and we will cooperate with all parties. All Georgia is currently on our side.”

“‘That which is the immodesty of other women has been my virtue – my willingness that the world should gaze upon my figure unadorned,’ Audrey Munson, the favorite nude model of the Beaux Arts movement in the United States, once proclaimed. … Yet following those Gilded Age years as the ‘American Venus,’ she had a failed silent film career …, was caught in a murder scandal, attempted suicide by poison, and was ultimately committed to a mental institution.”

“‘Stuff that works’ is how Mr. Clark alluded to the rustic images and folk tunes that defined his body of work in his 1995 song bearing that title. ‘Stuff that’s real, stuff you feel,’ he sang in a gruff, half-spoken baritone, ‘the kind of stuff you reach for when you fall.'”

“The women are part of a movement of female ghost hunters that they say has grown in recent years, and they’re hoping many more young girls will be encouraged to join after the highly anticipated women-led remake of Ghostbusters hits the big screen.”

“[Julius] La Rosa was in the Navy when Godfrey heard him sing and invited him to appear on his CBS TV show. After his discharge, Mr. La Rosa became a star of Godfrey’s show from 1951 to 1953, recording several hits including ‘Eh, Cumpari.’ Godfrey liked to exert control over his entertainers, making demands and restricting their outside work in return for exposure on his popular show.”

“[She] oversaw The Washington Post‘s dance coverage for nearly 15 years during a modern-dance boom in the city and later worked for the Washington Times as its dance critic.”