Word: carmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...characterization of the upper and lower orders of the fairy-world matches. Kenneth Ryan's Oberon pompously barks his lengthy speeches as if entranced by their weight; Carmen de Lavallade's Titania flexes her body in superhuman ways and says more with it than most performers manage with the help of Shakespeare's verse; the quartet of fairies in her train--dressed in skintight body suits, adorned with tails and extended fingers--is menacingly inhuman. Their lullaby for the sleeping queen, miles distant from both Mendelssohn and Purcell, sounds exactly like a chorus of watchful insects...
...word should be mentioned here about a woman named Carmen Williams, a sophomore at Harvard. Williams performs a couple of spectacular solos on the first side; on "I Wanna Be Ready," one of the records' two or three cuts, she is a force of nature, her voice powerful and richly toned, her technique perfectly wedded to the lyrics...
...most volatile G.O.P. primary campaign since the Goldwater-Rocke-feller-Scranton battles of 1964. The race, as well as the frame of mind of the voting public, is not only volatile but deceptive. "In primaries you never know what the voters mean," said raspy-voiced, chainsmoking Gerald Carmen, Reagan's shrewd coordinator in New Hampshire. "Are they just looking, just talking, just thinking?" Reagan himself had a euphoric answer. "I don't know about the hierarchy and the upper regions; I know about the people," he told cheering followers at a motel in Manchester the night of the big victory...
...like the Romans at the Colosseum waiting to see which gladiator survives," cracked Gerald Carmen, Ronald Reagan's campaign manager in New Hampshire. Carmen and assistants to Reagan's rivals were huddled in a small room beneath the stage where seven G.O.P. hopefuls were debating last week in a Manchester high school auditorium. As the candidates spoke, the nervous aides winced, grimaced, paled and finally relaxed. All the gladiators survived, and none was bloodied. The League of Women Voters' first 1980 presidential forum was considered pretty much of a draw. No candidate particularly shone; none faded away...
...Carmen Scarpa, principal of East Boston High, also said yesterday the law could be very disruptive if a majority of the class chooses to go into the hall during the prayer...