burlesque, extravagance, extravaganza, pestle, inextricable

The Bartholomew Fair took place #onthisday each year from 1133 to 1855. Mechanical puppets, waxworks, exotic wild animals, wrestlers, strong men and musical extravaganzas音樂狂歡節 – here’s how things looked at the Fair in the early years of the 19th century.


On March 30th Prada announced that profits for 2014 had dropped by 28% from the previous year, to just €451m ($484m). It is the first time that the firm has reported a drop in annual profits since it was floated on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2011. Anti-extravagance rules can be bad for business if you make handbags http://econ.st/19IN1vc

The Paris Review

“The word “burla” is some kind of antique Italian. It means “joke,” and the first burlesque was imitations of what went on uptown. It was a family affair. People brought their lunches and stuff.” An interview with Peter Larkin on the history of burlesque and his flashy pop-up books:http://tpr.ly/1zj7vWA

A Pop-Up Book Brings Classic Burlesque Acts to Life

Peter Larkin designed “Panties Inferno,“ an eye-popping homage to the...

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Petrushka (ballet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Petrushka (French: Pétrouchka; Russian: Петрушка) is a ballet burlesque in four scenes. It was composed in 1910–11 and revised in 1947. Igor Stravinsky ...

Scholar Saw a Multicolored American Culture
By MEL WATKINS


Mr. Murray, whose prose style was influenced by jazz and the blues, wrote about black culture as inextricable from American culture.

The Venice Biennale’s Rookies of the Year
By KEVIN MCGARRY





Ten new countries opened pavilions for the first time at the Italian art extravaganza this year.


AMG AllMovie Guide:
Burlesque

Plot

Christina Aguilera makes her dramatic feature debut as Ali, a small-town singer who takes her shot at stardom performing at a neo-burlesque nightclub in Los Angeles. Situated in a regal old theater that's still dazzling despite having fallen into disrepair, The Burlesque Lounge is the kind of club where legends are born. When club owner Tess (Cher) hires charismatic Ali as a cocktail waitress, the ambitious big-city newcomer goes to great lengths to make a good impression. Taken under the wing of a friendly featured dancer (Julianne Hough), Ali quickly realizes that not everyone is quite as nice when she forms a friendship with bartender/aspiring musician Jack (Cam Gigandet) and incurs the wrath of the club's cattiest showgirl (Kristen Bell). After making her leap to the stage with a little help from a sympathetic stage manager (Stanley Tucci) and the club's playfully androgynous host (Alan Cumming), Ali becomes the star attraction at The Burlesque Lounge, and the crowds start packing in. Later, a wealthy businessman (Eric Dane) makes a bid for the club while trying to charm the talented young performer straight into his arms. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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The collection includes the haunting prose dialogue ''Conversation in the Mountains,'' which appears as well in ''Last Poems'' - two translations are none too many for this important extravaganza of language, inventing characters who turn out to be memorably real. Celan's ''Conversation,'' for all its appeal (like ''The Meridian'') to the work and example of Georg Buchner, will remind us of the dialogic form that his hated and loved Martin Heidegger restored to modern philosophy; it bears here on the inextricable knot of Jewishness and the word. We recall that the dialectic is rooted not only in the Platonic dialogue but in the Mishna.

 

inextricable

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈɛkstrɪkəb(ə)l, ˌɪnɪkˈstrɪk-, ˌɪnɛk-/

Translate inextricable | into Italian
adjective

• impossible to disentangle or separate:the past and the present are inextricable
• impossible to escape from:an inextricable situation

inextricability

Pronunciation: /-ˈbɪlɪti/

noun

inextricably
adverb

Origin:

mid 16th century: from Latin inextricabilis, from in- 'not' + extricare 'unravel' (see extricate)

 extravaganza

Pronunciation: /ɪkˌstravəˈganzə, ɛk-/

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Definition of extravaganza

noun

• an elaborate and spectacular entertainment or production:an extravaganza of dance in many forms

Origin:

mid 18th century (in the sense 'extravagance in language or behaviour'): from Italian estravaganza 'extravagance'. The change was due to association with words beginning with extra-

 

extravaganza [ex・trav・a・gan・za]

• 発音記号[ikstræ`vəgǽnzə]

[名][U][C]

1 はでなショー［行事］.

2 狂想的音楽劇.

［イタリア語estravaganza. ex-はEXTRAVAGANCEの影響］

extravaganceLine breaks: ex|trava|gance

Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstravəɡ(ə)ns/

 /ɛkˈstravəɡ(ə)ns/

Definition of extravagance in English:

noun

[MASS NOUN]

1Lack of restraint in spending money or usingresources:his reckless extravagance with other people’s money

1.1[COUNT NOUN] A thing on which too much money has been spent or which has used up too manyresources:salmon trout is an unnecessary extravagance

1.2Excessive elaboration:the extravagance of the decor

bur·lesque (bər-lĕsk')
n.

[名]

1 [U][C]
(1) 茶番仕立て：演劇・文学において, まじめな主題を茶化す手法.
(2) こっけいな風刺文, 戯作, もじり詩；風刺的喜劇, 道化芝居, 茶番狂言. ⇒CARICATURE 1, PARODY 1, TRAVESTY[名]1

2 こっけいな所作, おどけた模倣.

3 [U]((米))バーレスク：わいせつな歌・ストリップなどを呼び物にする通俗的な音楽喜劇.

━━[動](他)…をこっけいに演じる［まねる］, 茶番化する, 茶化す.

━━(自)漫画にする, こっけいに描く, 戯画化する.

［フランス語←イタリア語burlesco （burla冗談＋-ESQUE様式の）］

bur・lés・quer

[名]

1. A literary or dramatic work that ridicules a subject either by presenting a solemn subject in an undignified style or an inconsequential subject in a dignified style. See synonyms at caricature.
2. A ludicrous or mocking imitation; a travesty: The antics of the defense attorneys turned the trial into a burlesque of justice.
3. A variety show characterized by broad ribald comedy, dancing, and striptease.

v., -lesqued, -lesqu·ing, -lesques. v.tr.
To imitate mockingly or humorously: "always bringing junk . . . home, as if he were burlesquing his role as provider" (John Updike).

v.intr.
To use the methods or techniques of burlesque.

[From French, comical, from Italian burlesco, from burla, joke, probably from Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *burrula, diminutive of Late Latin burrae, nonsense, from burra, wool.]

burlesque bur·lesque' adj.
burlesquely bur·lesque'ly adv.
burlesquer bur·lesqu'er n.

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In literature, comic imitation of a serious literary or artistic form that relies on an extravagant incongruity between a subject and its treatment. It is closely related to parody, though burlesque is generally broader and coarser. Early examples include the comedies of Aristophanes. English burlesque is chiefly drama. John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728), Henry Fielding's Tom Thumb (1730), and Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Critic (1779) are parodies of popular dramatic forms of the period. Victorian burlesque, usually light entertainment with music, was eclipsed by other popular forms by the late 19th century, and burlesque eventually came to incorporate and be identified with striptease acts (see burlesque show).
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burlesque [ber‐lesk], a kind of parody that ridicules some serious literary work either by treating its solemn subject in an undignified style (see travesty), or by applying its elevated style to a trivial subject, as in Pope's mock‐epic poem The Rape of the Lock (1712–14). Often used in the theatre, burlesque appears in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (in the Pyramus and Thisbe play, which mocks the tradition of interludes), while The Beggar's Opera (1728) by John Gay burlesques Italian opera. An early form of burlesque is the Greek satyr play. In the USA, though, burlesque is also 0a disreputable form of comic entertainment with titillating dances or striptease. See also extravaganza, satire.

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burlesque (bûrlĕsk') [Ital.,=mockery], form of entertainment differing from comedy or farce in that it achieves its effects through caricature, ridicule, and distortion. It differs from satire in that it is devoid of any ethical element. The word first came into use in the 16th cent. in an opera of the Italian Francesco Berni, who called his works burleschi. Early English burlesque often ridiculed celebrated literary works, especially sentimental drama. Beaumont and Fletcher's Knight of the Burning Pestle (1613), Buckingham's The Rehearsal (1671), Gay's Beggar's Opera (1728), Fielding's Tom Thumb (1730), and Sheridan's Critic (1779) may be classed as dramatic burlesque. In the 19th cent. English burlesque depended less on parody of literary styles and models. H. J. Bryon was a major writer of the new, pun-filled burlesque. The extravaganza and burletta were forms of amusement similar to burlesque, the latter being primarily a musical production. They were performed in small theaters in an effort to evade the strict licensing laws that forbade major dramatic productions to these theaters. American stage burlesque (from 1865), often referred to as "burleycue" or "leg show," began as a variety show, characterized by vulgar dialogue and broad comedy, and uninhibited behavior by performers and audience. Such stars as Al Jolson, W. C. Fields, Mae West, Fannie Brice, Sophie Tucker, Bert Lahr, and Joe Weber and Lew Fields began their careers in burlesque. About 1920 the term began to refer to the "strip-tease" show, which created its own stars, such as Gypsy Rose Lee; in c.1937 burlesque performances in New York City were banned. With the increase in popularity of nightclubs and movies, the burlesque entertainment died.
Bibliography
See studies by C. V. Clinton-Baddeley (1952, repr. 1974); R. P. Bond (1932, repr. 1964), and J. D. Jump (1972).
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Wikipedia article Burlesque.

	(noun pestle) A heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone.
Synonyms:	pounder, muller
Usage:	Sometimes she might have been seen … kneading poee-poee with terrific vehemence, dashing the stone pestle about as if she would shiver the vessel into fragments.

pestle(pĕs'əl, pĕs'təl)
n.

1. A club-shaped, hand-held tool for grinding or mashing substances in a mortar.
2. A large bar moved vertically to stamp or pound, as in a press or mill.

v., -tled, -tling, -tles. v.tr.
To pound, grind, or mash with or as if with a pestle.

v.intr.
To use a pestle.

[Middle English pestel, from Old French, from Latin pistillum.]

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mortar and pestle
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