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Another rebel is Esther Lategan, a social worker and businesswoman who resigned from the Nationalists to campaign as an independent. "People live in fear of the future," she says. "You must give them hope, and that is what I am talking about. How long can we stay in control? What about our children? Apartheid must...
Page's tics, fidgets and exaggerated nasalities, which have overdecorated many a characterization, here serve to heighten a shrewdly earthbound interpretation. Her Arcati is not dotty or otherworldly. She is a coarse, calculating businesswoman, a vulgar social climber, a tiresome, self-absorbed frump who just happens to be a medium with the gift of raising the dead. Her manner is so much the grasping fraud that the audience is stunned when she delivers the goods. Indeed, she is stunned herself: there are few funnier sights than Page striding across the stage in pursuit of a ghost whose presence she senses...
...pressure on people today. They need to add a sense of humor to their wardrobes." But imitation-jewelry fans also have practical reasons for their newfound passion. "If you travel with your good jewelry, you're going to get knocked over the head," observes Ann Mahony, a West Coast businesswoman, who recalls that she used to pin gems inside her lingerie before becoming a faux devotee. "Even now that I can afford the real thing, I still buy costume jewelry...
That said, the 58-year-old widow -- mother of four, grandmother of nine, devout Catholic, independent businesswoman -- smiled broadly, her eyes fairly twinkled, and she added, "Besides, if they took me to the nuthouse now they'd have to take thousands with...
...power aborted Horvath's career, and his reputation has | re-emerged only since the late 1960s. Figaro imagines the principal characters of Beaumarchais's 18th century farce The Marriage of Figaro thrust into a postrevolutionary modern world. Count Almaviva is a tyrant on the run, his wife a conniving businesswoman, the valet Figaro a nationalist longing to return to his newly free homeland, and his lady's-maid wife Susanna a loyalist clinging to the old social order...