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\ndemanding, sort of daily Purple Prose Alert. So here’s today’s, from the swiftly rising
\npurplemeister
\nbelieves the U.S. has a unique role to play in [the] struggle to complete democracy’s triumph over
\ntyranny and so drain the swamp of terror.” When the “triumph over tyranny” does “drain the
\nswamp of terror,” maybe it will also do a clean-up job on the purplemeister’s prose.<\/P>
\n
\ntoday of
\nCellini” at the Met<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>. He writes that “the conductor James Levine
\ntended to stress the ponderous. Meanwhile, the director Andrei Serban tended to err on the side
\nof whimsy.” The whimsy featured a constellation of “fugitives from a commedia
\ndell’arte circus, a corps of angels and archangels plus looming figures of the inquisition. He [also]
\nthrew in a couple of nearly naked warrior-youths, flew symbolic commentators on wires, and
\nmade dancing, prancing and miming a hectic way of life.”<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"