Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bancroft, playing a South American aristocrat, sounds more like South Brooklyn and about as aristocratic as a hash-house waitress. Alexander ably sketches differences among the dowager's airhead sister, mean daughter and timid nurse, but, as the last, lapses into a singsong that has become her trademark shorthand for innocence. Adding to the problem, Robert Allan Ackerman's archly formal staging emphasizes ritual over a sense of place. Still, the two women establish an ever shifting power dynamic. In the last fantasy, when they embrace fondly in an imagined courtyard, their warmth and urgency enable the audience to share...
...power. "A British sailor is any man's equal...except mine," he continues. This role, while certainly not a sympathetic one, is the jewel of H.M.S. Pinafore. Percus' facial expressions and the way he used his body to express his arrogance and frustration were perfect for the swollen-headed aristocrat...
Cash starved and struggling, Britain's Jaguar PLC has decided to take the course favored by many an aristocrat facing hard times: marrying into money. Last week, three days after Japanese investors bought a majority interest in Rockefeller Center, the 67-year-old maker of sleek, purring luxury sports cars and sedans agreed to be taken over by America's Ford Motor for $2.5 billion. The deal is likely to win approval from the required 75% of Jaguar's stockholders...
...their class. Both are obsessed by the idea of a Viet Nam memorial in Washington. But Wheeler favors the final design; Carhart, a lifelong iconoclast, censures the "black gash of shame and sorrow, hacked into the national visage that is the Mall." George Crocker, the classic warrior-aristocrat, is far removed from that fray. He distinguishes himself in combat, rises to lieutenant colonel and becomes the liberator of Grenada, a John Wayne figure "doing men things in a manly manner with other...
Strindberg's 1887 drama about a one-night affair between an aristocrat and her servant, Miss Julie details the emerging European concepts of Darwinism, psychology and the collapsing aristocracy of Europe. This play in the North House Dining Hall should prove an interesting combination of action, mime and dance in what was, in the nineteenth century, a highly innovative and ground-breaking play...