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...print. The direction is mostly downhill, or toward more freedom, depending on your point of view. After all, women-Congressmen's girl friends, Presidents' bedmates-now gleefully sign book contracts to describe conduct that once would have earned them a scarlet A as a branded adulteress...
...starts by passing around for mutual approbation photos of his dead fiancee. As a catalytic agent full of "power of positive thinking" jargon, he soon reduces everyone either to tears or hysterics. Unwittingly, he unmasks torpedoed marriages, a joyless adulteress (Cheryl Kennedy), blasted careers, lacecurtain carnage. When Colin, played with demonic dexterity by Richard Briers, finally leaves, one of the survivors utters a suburban epitaph: "Nice to sit with your friends now and again. Nice...
...justice to it. There's no need to cast the first stone here--in fact, the vocal talents of the Godspell ensemble are almost uniformly impressive. Especially outstanding are David Alpert's moving rendition of "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord" and Kathy Evans' portrayal of an adulteress rescued by Jesus who expresses her gratitude in "By My Side." Stephen Hayes as Jesus has a melodic high tenor which makes up in sweetness what it lacks in strength, while Patty Woo sings the show's best-known number, "Day by Day," in a clear contralto...
...wanted to do the Scarlet Letter because it is an interesting piece of Americana," explained Modern Dance Choreographer Martha Graham, 81, as she introduced her interpretation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel last week to an appreciative New York audience. While Graham Protegee Janet Eilber danced the part of Adulteress Hester Prynne in the classic Puritan story, the role of the Rev. Dimmesdale went to celebrated Russian Expatriate Rudolf Nureyev. "I see no irony in using a Russian to dance the lead in this very American story," insisted la grande Graham. "I choose dancers, not nationalists...
...Testament, Jesus set aside the male's privilege of easy divorce. He hobnobbed openly with women, talked about God with them, pointedly saved a condemned adulteress. The rabbis had taught that women could not be witnesses because, like Eve, they were easily deceived. By contrast, the first witnesses to Jesus' Resurrection were three women. For all this, the fact remains that the Redeemer was a man-the son, not the daughter, of God. And his twelve Apostles were...