Word: angelo
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...links historical Vienna to the Vienna of Shakespeare. The opening scene, set in a house of ill repute, resembles a giant sewer. We are down low, beneath ponderous vaults, looking into endless black caverns. But those same vaults function as the huge window frames in Angelo looks, the heavy frame vaults serve as a reminder of the seamy underside he struggles to repress...
...citizen says prostitution was "the dark underground vault over which rose the gorgeous structure of middle class society with its faultless radiant facade." Similarly in the story of Measure for Measure lechery runs rampant in Vienna. The Duke of the city pretends to leave, deputizing an icily moral Lord Angelo to govern in his place. The Duke hopes prostitution will be curbed this way. Angelo, true to form, immediately shuts the whorehouses, and condemns a man to death for fornication. But Claudio, the accused, has been living unmarried with his loving, contracted fiance only until her dowry can be arranged...
...CORE of the play is Angelo's realization of his sexuality. He presents a deal to Claudio's sister, Isabella, a strictly moral novice, who is called from her convent to argue on her brother's behalf. He tells her she can prostitute herself to him in exchange for her brother's life, or she can allow Claudio to die. Isabella never actually chooses between the alternatives. The Duke has been nearby all the while masquerading as a friar. He helps Isabella trick Angelo, furthering his own purpose of determining "if power change purpose...what our seemers...
With the aid of his backers, Ali apprenticed under Trainer Angelo Dundee, a skilled groomer of fighters. Dundee recalls: "The Louisville group wanted me to train him. I told them to send him down to Miami after Christmas. Twenty minutes later, I get a call telling me Ali wasn't waiting till after Christmas, he was coming right away. They told me he said, 'I don't want to wait for Christmas. I want to fight.' That's how it all started in October...
...weeks before the fight in Miami, Promoter Bill McDonald learned of Ali's Black Muslim associates and threatened to can cel the fight if Cassius did not denounce the Muslims. Conrad remembers: "When Ali heard that the fight was going to be nixed, he turned to Angelo and said matter of factly, 'Well, that's that.' He had absolutely no intention of renouncing his faith, not even for a crack at the world championship he'd fought and slaved so long and hard to get. It meant chucking the fight and plunging into obscurity, but he didn't hesitate...