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The coinages and cadences of the Tyndale Bible--"eat, drink, and be merry"; "a fool's paradise"; "fight the good fight"; "suffer the children"; "the salt of the earth"; "in his right mind"; "the powers that be"--and of the King James Version have for three centuries served both as psychic libretto and as percussion section for English speakers everywhere.
PUCCINI: Tosca (Filmed in the locale & time periods specified in the libretto)...
The words of the libretto zip past on the screens.
Newsweek extols the "poetic" libretto by Wayne Koestenbaum, author of Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting An Icon , as well as its "brilliantly eclectic score" and its general irreverence (Jackie is played by Nicole Heaston, who is short, stout, and African-American).
His take on the official report: "a splendid libretto by Kenneth Starr, a Greek chorus of television commentators … hapless walk-ons, clandestine comings and goings … a May-December romance."