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  • Beef Oven!
    Ex-member
    • Sep 2013
    • 18147
    #31
    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/winter-olympics/26112522



    All the more moving as the "Lipnits" in her surname clearly indicates her Jewish ancestry, and with that music, in that country...
    Prejudice often surprises when it collides with reality

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    • Serial_Apologist
      Full Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 37646
      #32
      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/winter-olympics/26112522



      All the more moving as the "Lipnits" in her surname clearly indicates her Jewish ancestry, and with that music, in that country...
      BTW what was that music? I'd assumed something by Khachaturian...

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26527
        #33
        Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
        Prejudice often surprises when it collides with reality
        That's a bit Confucian for me...! What does it mean, Beefy?
        "...the isle is full of noises,
        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26527
          #34
          Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
          BTW what was that music? I'd assumed something by Khachaturian...
          Mr John Williams's main theme from 'Schindler's List' - on its own terms, one of his very best (though repetitively overused in the film such that I ran from the cinema so as not to hear it another 30 times over the closing titles...
          "...the isle is full of noises,
          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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          • Serial_Apologist
            Full Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 37646
            #35
            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            Mr John Williams's main theme from 'Schindler's List' - on its own terms, one of his very best (though repetitively overused in the film such that I ran from the cinema so as not to hear it another 30 times over the closing titles...
            Ah, thanks Cali. Now I see.

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            • Beef Oven!
              Ex-member
              • Sep 2013
              • 18147
              #36
              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              That's a bit Confucian for me...! What does it mean, Beefy?
              Sorry Cali, I've forgotten my point

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26527
                #37
                Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                Sorry Cali, I've forgotten my point
                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • LHC
                  Full Member
                  • Jan 2011
                  • 1556
                  #38
                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/winter-olympics/26112522



                  All the more moving as the "Lipnits" in her surname clearly indicates her Jewish ancestry, and with that music, in that country...
                  Her costume was also a conscious echo of the girl in the red coat sequence in the film.
                  "I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
                  Lady Bracknell The importance of Being Earnest

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26527
                    #39
                    Originally posted by LHC View Post
                    Her costume was also a conscious echo of the girl in the red coat sequence in the film.
                    Quite. That only dawned on me yesterday.
                    "...the isle is full of noises,
                    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                    • Bryn
                      Banned
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 24688
                      #40
                      As others elsewhere have pointed out, her family name may give a clue to her ancestry, but the cross she carries below her neck suggests sympathy with another persecuted Jew. Whatever, a remarkable performance and politico-choreographic statement.

                      Last edited by Bryn; 11-02-14, 13:33.

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                      • teamsaint
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 25204
                        #41
                        Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                        As others elsewhere have pointed out, her family name may give a clue to her ancestry, but the cross she carries below her neck suggests sympathy with another persecuted Jew. Whatever, a remarkable performance and politico-choreographic statement.
                        Well that is a new one on me,but in a good way.

                        Has Beefy remembered his point yet?
                        I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                        I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                        • Beef Oven!
                          Ex-member
                          • Sep 2013
                          • 18147
                          #42
                          Originally posted by teamsaint View Post

                          Has Beefy remembered his point yet?
                          No

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                          • Beef Oven!
                            Ex-member
                            • Sep 2013
                            • 18147
                            #43
                            Let's not forget our own Jenny Jones and her amazing performance!!

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26527
                              #44
                              More poetry in motion!
                              "...the isle is full of noises,
                              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                              • Flosshilde
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 7988
                                #45
                                Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                                As others elsewhere have pointed out, her family name may give a clue to her ancestry, but the cross she carries below her neck suggests sympathy with another persecuted Jew. Whatever, a remarkable performance and politico-choreographic statement.

                                I don't see a cross in the picture.

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