The chorus not only provided a commentary on the action but also guided the moral and religious thought and emotion of the audience throughout the play: for Aeschylus (c. 525 456 bce) and Sophocles (c. 496 406 bce) it might be said that the chorus was the play, and even for Euripides (c. 480 406 bce) it remained lyrically powerful.
But to see "One Man's Bible" only as a commentary on the Cultural Revolution would be a bit like seeing Milan Kundera's "Book of Laughter and Forgetting" -- a work that bears more than a passing intellectual kinship to Mr. Gao's work -- as a commentary on Czech politics.
"I expect to flinch inwardly at the shop assistant's voice, experiencing his helpfulness only as a commentary on my dusty, liminal life," I wrote in an email.
Was it only yesterday a commentary in the Times bemoaned the supposed injustice of the Browns giving the Obama's daughters Top Shop dresses (with matching necklaces) when all their parents gave the Brown boys were models of the presidential helicopter Marine One? Yes it was.
Mr Burns is only a clodhopping commentary.
Unlike Damien Hirst's shelf sculptures displaying hundreds of pills, Mr. Tomaselli's works are not only a jaundiced commentary on modern medicine and a society on drugs.
I will add only a little commentary on a few of the beliefs listed below.
Ficino was especially eager to get this work into print, it seems, as he included only a few commentaries; although he did provide "argumenta," or short summaries of the Platonic works, his fuller Commentaries on Plato waited another twelve years for publication.
Lea Rosh, one of the people behind the Holocaust memorial, warned against turning the "analysis of history" into entertainment and commercialism, while the Central Council of Jews said that Hitler should be allowed to appear, but only accompanied by a commentary.
All are two-disc editions loaded with extras ($24.99; Paramount) but Sunset is the only one with a commentary track, this one by my friend Ed Sikov, the author of the acclaimed, best-selling Wilder biography On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times Of Billy Wilder.
