In hindsight AIDS casts a shadow over Mr. Bianchi's pictures of men roughhousing and coupling and gamboling and, yes, shaking tambourines.
After that First Symphony — first movement, as it were — the Second came as a sort of scherzo, gamboling through old folk and hymn tunes, with "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" as anchor.
Sometimes all eyes are misty, when the Dragons stage a Home Run for Life, letting a critically ill child round the bases between innings, with both teams lining the basepaths and cheering, with the foghorn booming and the scoreboard glittering and the mascots gamboling.
Strip malls and divided highways slowly gave way to woods and field, tractor sales and horses gamboling behind white fences.
Naked men and women gamboling through water and grass; nearly naked people taking pleasure in one another, lolling on the floor in raw chicken and fish.
There are some deliriously tasty (sorry) bits sprinkled throughout — did I mention those adorable little lambs, gamboling onstage during most of the musical numbers to offer choral support?
The resulting piece, inspired by the mask Candice Bergen wore to Truman Capote's Black and White Ball and photos of rabbits gamboling in the snow, contains 3.5 carats of sparklers that are meant to represent snowflakes.
In its second part choralelike phrases swayed in pensive near-stasis before swelling suddenly to a gamboling final flourish.
They took long walks together, sometimes all day, talking about the world and stopping at various establishments where Gus, ushered into a back room by his hosts, would leave the young Keith outside, with time to ponder his grandfather's mischievous and gamboling private life.
His portion of the Curse is to see his deceased daughter, Ruth, gamboling on a steeply sloping roof and trying to lure him to his death (luckily, President Cleveland is too fat to fit through the window).
