When Gualtiero, the tenor Paul Groves, first appears, wearing a tacky outfit with thick brown boots (the fanciful costumes are by Dunya Ramicova), he addresses his people (here, the audience) through a microphone, with henchmen in sunglasses and slick suits at his sides.
Besides writing love lyrics addressed to mistresses with fanciful names like Anthea, Althea, Lucasta, or Amarantha, the Cavaliers sometimes wrote of war, honour, and their duty to the king.
Alas, Dr. Young's memoirs do not address another oft-repeated, seemingly fanciful claim about Brady: that, as Parker Morell puts it in his book, doctors discovered Diamond Jim's stomach to be "six times as large as normal".
In fact, what follows is not fanciful but hard-nosed, an authoritative account, addressed to the layman, of Hawking's understanding of space and time, the expanding universe, particle physics and the origins of the universe.
It is a fanciful expression, to be sure, but it does address what is, for many, an issue each year: Around the third day, the palate often begins to rebel against a steady diet of foods that are kosher for Passover like matzah, the unleavened bread also known as matzo or matzoh.
There are no easy answers, but Washington's time would be better spent addressing these issues than in concocting fanciful punishments for the North's leader.
"Hotels have to make sure they address the basics before they think about the fanciful," he said.
It could not be uglier, and yet the wallpaper is a novelty that visitors appreciate, evidence of a family with no pressing interest in addressing obvious problems of decor, and also proof of a happy time, an exuberant, fanciful time in American history that spawned exuberant and fanciful wallpaper.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet In this sequence, the plot of "Dr. Strangelove" is described as fanciful but not impossible.
