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After spending an operatic evening with Rosalind, the heroine of Shakespeare's ``As You Like It,'' I can conclude that Cupid's arrow doesn't simply hurt - it pierces, guts, lacerates, infects and disembowels. Coltrane takes a weak Western form, a popular song ["Nature Boy," "My Favorite Things"], and murders it; that is, he mutilates and disembowels this shallow but bouncy tune by using discordant and aggressive sounds to attack and destroy the melody line. Japan, remember, is the country that invented seppuku, or hari kari, in which the guilty party confesses, apologizes, then disembowels himself in front of the victim. |
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