Word: anna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stack, Toshiro Mifune). Such oldtime Hollywood character actors as Lionel Stander, Elisha Cook and Slim Pickens also fly by along the film's manic way. Indeed, 1941's players are so numerous and di verse that one almost expects cameos by the Dead End Kids or maybe Anna May Wong...
Defense: Julie Starr, an All-Ivy Honorable Mention player for the 1978-79 season, and co-captain Lauren Norton--who leads the team in points this year with two goals and an assist--give a young Harvard team an experienced edge. Alice Hill, Anna Jones and Sue Putnam (all upperclassmen) round out the corps of defensemen...
...defense has experience and should play tenacious hockey. Co-captain Norton joins Alice Hill as the number-one pairing, and Starr and Anna Jones line up as number two. All four return from last year, although Norton is new to the blueline, and they should prove themselves a stingy quartet--no 17-0 games this year...
...other roles run from the accomplished but not overdone leporello of Jose van Dam to Kenneth Riegel's wooden Don Ottavio. Among the women, Kiri Te Knawa's Donna Elvira stands out as the most musically agile and dramatically subtle. Edda Moser afflicts Donna Anna with an unfocused voice and the worst of operatic mannerisms--especially ludicrous with instant translation in English subtitles. She shrieks and sways--the subtitle reads, "I'm fainting." She shrieks once again and staggers to embrace a marble column--"I'm dying...
...ambience of the recording studio. The result is that characters who ought to be interacting lose touch with each other and finally with the sense of the libretto. The most absurd example is II mio tesoro intanto, in which Ottavio, supposedly at night, exhorts his friends to console Donna Anna while he goes in search of the authorities. Losey sends him strolling up and down a sunlit lawn, singing to nobody in particular, while pausing occasionally to nudge the sleeping form of some peasant sprawled in his path...