The emotional territories, too, were pretty much fixed: exaltation, seduction, the blues.
His piece on "professional" wrestling — "it is no more ignoble to watch a wrestled performance of Suffering than the sorrows of Arnulphe or Andromaque" — was a direct influence on Sontag's "Notes on Camp," and pretty much every subsequent, serious exaltation of low or popular arts and culture.
His piece on "professional" wrestling—"it is no more ignoble to watch a wrestled performance of Suffering than the sorrows of Arnulphe or Andromaque"—was a direct influence on Sontag's "Notes on Camp," and pretty much every subsequent, serious exaltation of low or popular arts and culture.
A couple of factors seem involved in the exaltation of a dicey work, much damaged and the recipient of clumsy restorations before its recent rescue — to the extent possible — by an expert New York restorer, Dianne Dwyer Modestini.
Her fine-boned confidence shows in the performance -- this trained dancer does much of her own work -- and her exaltation in movement gives her an adult dimension she has never brought to acting.
So, ahead of the event's 20th anniversary, I called up five producers who put together the first three "Divas" shows (2000′s was a Diana Ross tribute featuring Carey, Hill, Donna Summer, Destiny's Child and RuPaul) to see just how much gossip I could marshal about these glittery exaltations.
And Romantic composers from Schumann and Chopin to Hugo Wolf and Gustav Mahler did in fact produce much of their very best creative work in precisely such a state of exaltation, in a few tragic instances (e.g., Schumann and Wolf) to the ultimate detriment of their sanity.
As for CNN, its self-exaltation as the "most trusted name in news" is as much an assault on reality as FOX's claim of "fair and balanced".
It's not a translation of a medieval vision into modern terms but a visionary embodiment of continuity — a fusion of spiritual exaltation, physical fury, defiance of authority, and political revolt that is as much an element of energetic, creative, and history-making youth now as it ever was.
They do not see how she can read so much so fast or why her reviews are overwhelmingly — and, they say, misleadingly — exaltations.
