Word: anna
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure, a few readers will complain that his second novel fails to live up to the promise of Edisto, which drew raves and comparisons to Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye when it appeared in 1984. A Woman Named Drown is not going to remind anyone of Anna Karenina. On the other hand, Powell's new book picks up smoothly where its predecessor left off, which is not, given the level of skills evident throughout Edisto, a bad place to begin...
...plane diving, nose-down," said Anna Zagorska, an eyewitness who lives nearby. "There was an explosion that shattered the glass in our house." Four miles short of the airport runway, the flaming aircraft sliced through 500 yards of treetops in the Kabaty Woods, near the town of Piaseczno, and crashed to the ground. All 183 aboard, including 17 Americans, were killed...
...directors modified sequences to suit later, often smaller companies and different dancers.) The piece is set in 17th and 18th century French surroundings, as it often is. The scenery, by Nicholas Georgiadis, is pleasing if not quite light and airy enough. The costumes, also by Georgiadis and supervised by Anna Watkins, are breathtaking, not only sumptuous but redolent of a royal fantasy. The stage is filled with personages who could stroll the mirrored corridors of a palace. The Queen, for instance, wears a lyrical ivory silk dress, inspired by a Van Dyck portrait of Charles I's French wife...
After a year's absence, Julian (Dan Rapport) and his new wife Lily (Ellen Bledsoe) pay an unexpected visit to Julian's spinster sisters Anna (Nora Jaskowiak) and Carrie (Sara Melson). Julian, who has become suddenly and mysteriously rich, showers his wife and sisters with gifts, but the women are unhappy because Julian's newfound independence upsets the balance of his relationships with each of them. Lily's anxiety is compounded by the presence of her estranged mother Albertine (Katherina Urso) and her mother's lover, Henry (Lisa Garmire...
...bounce. His new recording, a warm-up for his production of the opera in Salzburg this spring and summer, never comes to fiery, diabolical life. It wastes the . talents of Ramey and Battle, and features an excruciating performance by Tomowa-Sintow as the hectoring, humorless Donna Anna. Far more harmonious is Battle's recording from her 1984 recital at Karajan's Salzburg Festival. The material is her familiar mix of early English songs by Purcell and Handel, German lieder, French chansons, and spirituals, but she sings with such crystalline vocalism and beguiling elan that it becomes irresistible. Levine's elegant...