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  WATM ABC 23 :: Local News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Investigators say they believe 25 year-old Paul Joseph Pulcinello was speeding when he fell asleep behind the wheel and lost control of his car.
Pulcinello was not injured but a passenger in the car 24 year-old Justin David Mulbaurer died in the crash.
It's believed the two Altoona men were on their way to the Methdone Clinic in Richland Twp.
www.abc23.com /dev/news/headline1.php?id=164   (104 words)

  
 Punch and Judy
He speaks in a bizarre rasping voice, produced by a contrivance known as a swozzle which the Professor holds in his mouth.
The Punch and Judy show has deep roots; it is ultimately based on the Italian commedia dell'arte, and the figure of Punch derives ultimately from the stock character of Pulcinello[?].
Punch has lent his name to Punch, a long running British humour magazine.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pu/Punch_and_Judy.html   (269 words)

  
 DANCE: THE FELD BALLET IN 'THEATER' - New York Times
The hunchbacked Pulcinello lasciviously strokes Pierrot's apparent hunch, the Innamorate circle him with their stabbing pointwork and the Ladri whisk him from side to side of the stage, raising him like a Christ figure.
The lead cast also included Thomas Lemanski as Pulcinello and Jeffrey Neeck as Brighella.
Feld is consciously on to smaller things in ''The Jig Is Up,'' a suite of dances set to Irish folk music by the Bothy Band and John Cunningham.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE1D9103DF931A25750C0A961948260   (592 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
It is important to know about Pulcinello, one of the most famous southern characters, some say, associated with Pasquariello.
He was depicted having a hump, wearing white, with a tall white hat, and a hooked-nose mask.
In the 1700's, Battista Tiepolo and his son, Domenico, produced wonderful paintings and drawings of Pulcinello, cooking, dancing, performing acrobatics, swinging, and cavorting with beautiful ladies.
www.commedia-dell-arte.com /pasquariellomask.htm   (275 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
“Pulcinello” is a lyrical story based in the tradition of the Comedia del Arte of Italy.
All along I wanted to tell a story that went deeper into the subconscious and still have surface humor that can be easily digested.
In order to emphasize the main characters vulnerability I wanted to create an alter ego and developed a trickster type character who was the complete opposite of Pucli.
animation.sheridanc.on.ca /~donar/pulci   (274 words)

  
 BellwoodFootball.com-This Date/September 6th
Bellwood-Antis recovered a fumbled punt at the CR-17 in the third period.
Four plays later, Frank Pulcinello bulled into the endzone for a TD and B-A was back in business.
Troy Lardieri got his third big punt return of the night to set up shop at the Lions-29 and after Pulcinello ripped off a 13-yard gain, Karl Montanaro carried three straight times, including the eight-yard TD.
www.bellwoodfootball.com /history/thisdate/td09_06.html   (881 words)

  
 Slow Travel Trip Reports - Venice, Carnivale 2004
There was a suite of rooms at the Ca Rezzonico that were similar in size to that of their original placement.
Pulcinello watching a boat leave for the new world complete with people looking at the boat leaving, so all you see is their backsides!
There were drunk Pulcinelli, a girl dressed up as a Pulcinella being fondled by a leering Pulcinello, Pulcinello holding a Pulcinello midget while leering at a girl and boy acrobat at the circus.
www.slowtrav.com /tr/tripreport.asp?tripid=840&index=2   (1946 words)

  
 Child's play (Seattle Weekly)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Knowing their audience, the Carters and Feng have filled their show with whimsy, even giving the Italian clown Pulcinello the pole in Polo's gondola.
Pulcinello, a character from commedia dell'arte, helps to tell the story, which is peppered with Italian phrases.
As Polo progresses, the mythology of the Mediterranean gives way to the Dragon King, and sea battles with pirates are staged in the manner of the elaborate water spectacles once popular at European courts.
www.seattleweekly.com /arts/0140/arts-truzzi.php   (685 words)

  
 village voice > dance > by Deborah Jowitt
He is, however, terrific in the revival of Feld's enigmatic 1971 Theatre, as a forlorn Pierrot and as the actor preparing himself for a role all too close to himself.
Excellent performances too from Jassen Virolas and Ha-Chi Yu as Arlecchino and Columbina, Jordan as Pulcinello, and an ensemble of pert maidens and sneaky servants.
Feld's new Pianola showcases four women in solos that point up their diversity and in ensemble patterns that emphasize their strength.
www.villagevoice.com /dance/0218,jowitt,34363,14.html   (1153 words)

  
 Harlequin Unmasked:The Commedia dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculpture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the commedia dell'arte played on marketplace platforms or palace stages; its improvised scenarios transgressed the social and political order.
The stock characters - the Captain, Pantalone, Harlequin, the Doctore, Pulcinello, and the lovers and zanni - evolved over time and took on local accents.
The old roles took on new fictive life in prints and paintings, in costumes for aristocratic masked balls, and in porcelain figures and dessert ware.
www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/721/721_review_edwards.html   (824 words)

  
 Blogging the Hollywood Film Festival
This was the movie that Carlos, the festival director, had circumspectly described to me yesterday "very artistic, if you like something artistic." Whether that was a review or a warning, it turned out to be correct.
Before the film however, a couple of very lively animated shorts screened, "The Mantis Parable" and "Pulcinello," the stories of a praying mantis and drunken gondelier respectively.
I poked my head into "The Chef" which seemed a competently made thriller set on a sea-going freighter, a backdrop which made me wonder why there weren't more films made on sea-going freighters.
www.calendarlive.com /movies/weblog/movies/archives/2005/10/cmon_everybody.html   (1134 words)

  
 Recess
Eventually, the puppets were asked to leave the churches in the west because they were, well, too entertaining!
And they ended up, instead, in the market place where they have been ever since, in one form or another -- as Pulcinello and Petrushka, Pinocchio and Punch -- the most durable puppet of all time, who is simply too tough to ever really die.
So let's hear it for the humble, eternal puppets, made of socks or paper, on strings or sticks, who let us believe, if only for a moment, in the sheer mystery of the fact that a piece of painted wood can make us laugh or tell us life's deepest secrets.
www.recess.ufl.edu /transcripts/2002/0426.shtml   (330 words)

  
 Stravaganze Napoletane - A. Corelli, A. Scarlatti / Laurin | ArkivMusic
It is not difficult to see how the Amsterdam publisher La Cène was able to get away with publishing six of Ravenscroft’s sonatas as the work of the Roman master.
Finally, if you think the delightful Gallo Trio Sonata sounds familiar, it probably is, having been borrowed by Stravinsky (who of course believed it to be by Pergolesi) for his ballet Pulcinello.
The performances are as accomplished as one would expect from these artists, although I have to confess there are frequently occasions on which I would happily exchange their supreme technical accomplishment and finesse for more vitality and verve, a greater sense of trying to probe more deeply.
www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?album_id=91276   (647 words)

  
 ae.puppets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
With strange plot twists, magical spells and mysterious intrigue, the show is specifically designed for adult audiences.
The story explores the survival of the spirit of the classic Pulcinello in contemporary society.
The lead character of Clotario Demoniax has its roots in 18th century European hand puppets such as the Italian "Pulchinella" and "Punch" (as in Punch and Judy) in England.
www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /db/issues/96/10.25/ae.puppets.html   (884 words)

  
 PUPPETRY
The famous Punch and Judy puppets have a history of almost 300 years.
The Italian Pulcinello character came to its greatest popularity during the Renaissance.
Similar puppet characters can be found in ancient India and China.
www.liunet.edu /cwis/cwp/tilles/guides/sw-puppetry.html   (363 words)

  
 Rainbow Theatre
Click on any of our past theatrical productions below to view details, dates of performances and names of actors.
The touch of a girl from the audience gives Pulcinello, a wooden puppet, the impression that he is...
The feeling leads him to question his dependence on the master who manipulates the strings of the puppets, and awakens in him the desire for freedom.
www.geocities.com /rainbowtheatre/past_productions.htm   (480 words)

  
 Blow Up | Film | Blow Up | The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
The short film packages have been strong and popular at SIFF this year, and two upcoming ones contain shorts by local filmmakers.
Serge Gregory's beautiful fl-and-white ode to waterways and cityscapes, Foster Island, screens in "The Great Unspoken" (Sat June 5, 4 pm, BPH), while David Donar's ode to drunken clowns, Pulcinello, screens in "ANIMATO!" (Mon June 7, 6:45 pm, BPH).
Filmmaker and cine-essayist Mark Rappaport made a splash a couple of years ago with Rock Hudson's Home Movies and From the Journals of Jean Seberg, two movies that explored the pressure of fame on two movie icons.
www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=18355   (528 words)

  
 Jean Negulesco
Another can-can (the more famous one) in groups, a circle and pairs, leads to the barcarolle with a dazzling invention by Massine, just a comic suite of crisscrossing groups making as if they were in gondolas drifting by, romantically.
Massine returns, a regular Pulcinello, bags in hand, only to find the girl in a deep embrace with the Baron.
Petrushka has been revived several times, even with Nureyev, without conveying anything like the original.
cmulrooney.tripod.com /negulesco.html   (822 words)

  
 Yellow Ribbon Program -- Good Morning America Photo Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Survivors of boys' suicides in the "Green Room" of the Good Morning America Show -- November 1999
Dar Emme, surviving mom, and Angela Pulcinello, surviving sister of Eric Henderson, in New York City for Good Morning America taping -- November 1999
L-R -- Dale and Dar Emme, Colorado; Larry and Cindy Marchant, Nevada; and Tina Henderson and Angela Pulcinello, Pennsylvania
www.yellowribbon-pa.org /goodmorningamerica.html   (79 words)

  
 C Tatham ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
William Blake, English, 1757-1827 Nebuchadnezzar about 1795 Monotype finished in fl chalk, pen and watercolor,
Attributed to William Blake, English, 1757-1827 Goliath Cursing David (recto) A Pulcinello Frightening a Child
Click on any of the links below to read about artnews or exhibitions related to Tatham
www.wwar.com /masters/t/tatham-c.html   (222 words)

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