In taste terms, they unite the sweet, cabbage-like freshness of young spring greens with a delicate memory of brussels sprouts, but without any of the latter's sometimes testing sulphurous undertones.
Unlike that earlier, delicate play about memories, "The Day on Which a Man Dies" is a raw, experimental work — part theater, part avant-garde happening — that portrays an alcoholic painter frantically grappling for a new means of artistic expression.
His Endless Columns, giant birds and monumental gates now guard the delicate realm of memory.
Taking some liberties with Vladimir Nabokov's 1930 novel, Ms. Gorris has composed a delicate fable about memory, devotion and the vulnerability of genius in a cruelly ordinary world.
This comes with Bintley's The Dance House, a tragicomic setting of Shostakovich's Concerto for Piano, Trumpet & Strings; and John Cranko's Brouillards, which uses nine of Debussy's piano preludes in a delicate study of memory and loss.
For all its delicate virtues, its memory-framing device (a woman in a flowing gown holding a rose and gazing piously over the terrain that was once her heart) is soppy, its costumes are twee, and its expressions of young-love-at-a-gathering keep inclining to preciosity.
But the play draws a delicate line connecting painful memories of a country left behind to the conflicted feelings of assimilated first-generation immigrants whose knowledge of that world is mostly secondhand.
All relationships change the brain -- but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.
IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH BRODSKY Delicate sensors registered the shock, IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH BRODSKY It was the end of day Last part of 12-part Talk section devoted to the memory of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
