| Their opera is the mysterious and darkly moving tale of what happened after the pied piper left Hamelin. |
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| The sitar player is like a pied piper leading the dinner guests as if they were rats. |
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| Certainly the most popular person of Hameln is the pied piper and the saga about the rats and the children disappearing in a mountain. |
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| After word of Banks' presence spread, he became a modern-day pied piper. |
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| Unfortunately, such considerations of purpose tend to be drowned out by the alluring, sweet-sounding tune of a pied piper. |
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| I wanted to restore the essence of this story by conserving the ambiguity and mystery surrounding the pied piper, without trying to impose my personal interpretation of the character. |
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| Most were hypnotized by the bewildering magician, as if he were a Pied Piper ready to lead them off to a better world. |
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| Which is why, on its first run, to London, it was like a blue and white Pied Piper trailing a stream of ratty hatches in its wake. |
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| We walked through the village to another craftsman's house, a Pied Piper tail of children trailing us. |
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| At 6pm, Masters, rum in pocket, swaggers down the street like a dishevelled Pied Piper with about 60 young devotees straggling along behind him. |
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| As a result, she has become a Pied Piper of sorts, on a crusade to encourage people to document their family histories. |
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| In a hot economy, and in the middle of a shooting war, just how many kiddies will follow this Pied Piper out of the city gates? |
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| I was invited to go to India by Nehru, who was a great lover of children, and he thought I was a kind of a Pied Piper of children in America. |
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| They are famous for setting up their tents outside of small towns across Europe and drawing the local populations with a Pied Piper type parade. |
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| Visitors to Avebury were treated to the unusual site on Sunday of a Pied Piper leading lots of mice around the village. |
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| But before I get to genuflecting villagers, let me talk about my role as a Pied Piper. |
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| Like a Pied Piper for pests, Su devised a simple method to get the termites to come out of hiding. |
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| I want no philosopher queen or king, no prophet exuding revealed truth, no mesmerising Pied Piper, no hawker of appealing mirages, no self-absorbed hankerer for power. |
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| The traditional finale to the circus parade was the Pied Piper of the circus, the steam calliope. |
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| Some people even see it as a kind of Pied Piper, a sinister force that will spirit away our younger generation. |
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| On the same day, the Pied Piper returns to Hamelin to entrap the children and lead them into the world of dreams as an act of revenge upon the townspeople. |
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| He was the pied Piper of life and brought joy to everyone he knew. |
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| The history books tell us that the Pied Piper could be identified by his flamboyant and seemingly impossible glissando playing on the humble recorder. |
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| Some suggest the children's crusade was the source of the tale of the Pied Piper a man who appears in the town of Hamelin, in Westphalia, and leads away first the town's rats and then its children. |
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| One government television advert in the early 70s even compared local PIRA commanders to the Pied Piper of Hamelin leading children towards a disastrous end. |
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