卫紧紧抱住索菲娅。）
索菲娅：你家在派对后可还好？
大卫：派对？什么派对？
索菲娅：派对--红裙子、带带鞋。我不小心把酒水洒在了你的衬衣上，甜甜的，酸酸的，还有端着马丁尼酒的忧郁的女孩。
大卫：（独白）我的梦是残酷的玩笑。它们嘲弄着我。甚至在梦里我也痴痴地想要醒来，回到现实中。我能逃避的只有睡眠，但我做不到。我试着告诉自己该梦见些什么。我努力要做个飞翔的梦，梦见那种自由的感觉。但从来没梦到！
注释:
1) vanilla n. 香子兰
2) shrink n.（美国俚语）神经科医生
3) stereotype v. 使成定型；使形式固定
4) manual n. 手册，指南
5) cutthroat a. 残酷的，无情的
6) horn in（美国俚语）闯入；干预
7) stalker. n. 潜随猎物者
8) improvise v. 即兴创作或表演
9) strappy a.（鞋类或衣服）有褶的，有带子的
10) jeff buckley 杰夫·巴克利，美国一位英年早逝的歌星，17岁时离家到好莱坞发展。1994年，出了一张ep live at sin-e和唯一的一张亲自参与制做的专辑grace。1997年在密西西比河中游泳时不幸溺水身亡。
11) simultaneously adv. 同时发生的
12) blow off 甩人，抱怨
13) audition n. 试听
14) hola 西班牙语，即英文hello。
15) taunt v. 嘲笑，奚落
★★《2003年01月号-第38期-disc01-08》★★
the birth of a masterpiece
-- michelangelo's david
if ever a work of art had a right to feel over exposed, it is michelangelo's david, naked in the heart of florence for nearly 5 centuries. in recent years his 1)manhood has been 2)appropriated for postcards, fridge magnates and even mouse mats. the great figure is of course 3)synonymous with the sculptor michelangelo buonarrotti, but the marble block that became the david was already being worked on a decade before michelangelo was even born.
it was 4)extracted from the hostile mountainside high up in the alpune alps, some 60 miles north of florence. 5)rivalry between the city-states of 6)renaissance italy 7)put the story in motion; 8)provoked by the splendors of milan, the florentine authorities commissioned 9)colossal figures to rein the rooftop of their 10)cathedral, a hugely ambitious plan.
it was a man named agustino deduchio, an assistant to the 11)renowned master sculptor donetello, who was first commissions to make this david. his plan was to mine 4 separate blocks: one piece for the head, one for each arm and one for the body. the fate of three of the blocks is unknown. only the stone intended for the 12)torso survived, but in itself it was the first such gigantic marble slab to be 13)quarried since the sculptured giants of the roman empire were created over a thousand years earlier.
deduchio had never taken on a project of this size, he was more at home with fairly undemanding reliefs, but he pressed on choosing to creat what appeared to be a clothed david. he carved a lot of 14)drapery on the chest, worked on the feet and made a hole between the legs, but it wasn't long before he was forced to give up, the sheer scale of the marble or perhaps the shallowness of the block defeating him.
it was to be another 12 years before the authorities regained the confidence to commission another sculptor to try to make something of this troublesome figure. antonio rossolino was a 15)resourceful craftsman, but he too failed, becoming the second victim of the block's 16)intimidating dimensions.
michelangelo probably did come forward with a wax model and as it were in competition with anybody else who wanted the job, he talked them into allowing him to do the piece. so he got, i think, the commission by sheer competition and by being brilliant.
the david contract gave michelangelo two years to complete the statue. his fee was fixed at three gold 17)florins a month, a good artisan wage.
the piece is too large to work 18)horizontally, so it has to be 19)tackled upright. this means dust and stone raining down onto the sculptor. the shallowness of the marble now poses the greatest challenge. working on a block as little as 2 feet deep in places, the margin for error is nonexistent. the creation has to be mathematically accurate, or the block will be ruined or the proportions lost. david might even be deprived of balance and crash to the floor in 20 tons of fragments. the architectural solution is a tree trunk carved behind the leg to support the figure while david stands in 20)contrapposto, the position where one leg is kept straight. if the sculptor then drops a 21)plumb line from the throat to the foot, gravity will then be satisfied and the statue balanced.
aside from inspiration, this was hard physical work, often 22)tedious and occupying 14 hours a day and 6 days a week. the powerful young sculptor, a little over five feet tall, must have felt that he was the david, facing a giant enemy.
a year into the commission, the cathedral elders pay a visit to view the work in progress. they're amazed at what they see, whether they expected a 23)nude is questionable but were known to have been delighted, they had commissioned a masterpiece after all.
杰作的诞生
--大卫雕像
如果说有哪件艺术品给曝光过度，那就是在佛罗伦萨市中心赤身露体了近五个世纪的米开朗基罗的大卫。近年来，他的阳刚美态又见诸于明信片、冰箱磁贴、甚至鼠标垫上。自然，这座雕像就是米开朗基罗·博纳罗蒂的代名词，不过成为了大卫的这块大理石，早在米开朗基罗出生前十年就已经给在琢磨了。
大理石是从佛罗伦萨北部60英里外对立城邦的阿普亚卑高山上开采的。文艺复兴时期意大利各城邦间的竞争为这个故事拉开序幕；米兰的繁荣辉煌敦使佛罗伦萨的当权者也找人来制作巨型雕像，以放在他们的大教堂顶上，这是一个雄心勃勃的计划。
一个名叫阿加提诺·迪杜奇奥的人当时是著名雕刻大师唐纳特罗的副手，雕刻大卫的任务正是被首先委派给他的。他计划分别开采四块大理石：一块做头，两只手各一块，还有一块做身体。另外的三块大理石下落不明。只有要用来造躯干的石块给保留了下来，即便这块，也是一千多年以来罗马帝国为制作巨型雕像所首次开采的最大大理石块。
迪杜奇奥从来没有接过这么大规模的工程，他更擅长