Word: chillfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suede, Frangoise Sagan's first play, following her increasingly dull novels, is the biggest Paris hit in many seasons. Sagan's Castle in Sweden is 18th century, down to the costumes of the inhabitants, who seem like characters from a summery Watteau canvas driven inside by the chill of autumn-but the time is 1960. Dressing up is this family's mildest eccentricity. Beautiful Eleonore is devoted to her husband Hugo, but this has never prevented her from seducing every male cousin who comes to visit. Also, she has a brother who is as fond...
Duel of Angels (translated and adapted by Christopher Fry from the French of Jean Giraudoux) was the last play written before his death in 1944, by the wittily ironic, aromatically pessimistic author of The Madwoman of Chaillot and Tiger at the Gates. It is a suavely chill farewell -a glass of iced champagne held in almost as cold a hand. Called Pour Lucrece in French, it offers-in the Aix-en-Provence of 1868-variations on the old tale of the violated Roman matron who, after bidding her family avenge her, committed suicide. It opens in the best Giraudoux style...
...warmth of the play's humor is the lustier for the chill in the air, and Falstaff is almost the nimbler with his fortunes in decline. As in Part I, Eric Berry plays Falstaff with, fine, resourceful gusto; among his playmates, Gerry Jedd's Mistress Quickly, Franklin Cover's Silence and Ray Reinhardt's Pistol are all good, and John Heffernan's Shallow something better. The time-honored comic scenes keep their blend of rust and magic. The royal scenes, full of a rhetoric that needs a humanizing voice, fare a good deal less well...
...would want to live all my life in Paris if there was not this earth which is called Moscow," said Nikita Khrushchev in Paris last week, quoting the Russian poet, Vladimir Mayakovsky. But though Khrushchev was over the flu, in Paris he was still capable of catching a chill...
Unlikely as it seems, frostbiting is booming. Last week dinghies put out into the chill waters from eleven different points on the Sound, scores of other spots on both coasts. "It's like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer," sums up Knapp, clasping the tiller of his dinghy Agony. "It feels great when you stop...