Word: cleopatra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...JAZZ CLEOPATRA: JOSEPHINE BAKER IN HER TIME...
Baker, as author Phyllis Rose observes in this elegant, judicious biography, actually "had little subtlety and less angst." Still, as the evolution from cabaret "jungle bunny" to boulevard nobility suggests, she was a woman of Cleopatra-like variety and contradiction. Baker was cheerfully promiscuous, yet loyal in a way to a few paternalistic men who meant more to her than a year of one-night stands. Childless herself, she eventually adopted twelve infants of different races, accumulating a rambunctious family she called the "Rainbow Tribe." Baker built her career in Europe, partly to escape the humiliations of a racist America...
...Isadora Duncan, Mary Queen of Scots and Guinevere. Her toughness made her an anti-Nazi adventurer in Julia and a fierce literary agent in Prick Up Your Ears. Onstage in the summer of 1986 in London, she demonstrated her range by alternating as the worldly queen in Antony and Cleopatra and the humiliated, housebound maiden in The Taming of the Shrew. If anything linked those two roles, it was only the pained look they shared, that unforgettable gaze from those grave and piercing eyes as they take in the unimaginable perfidy of the world...
...family sitting out there ((when)) you obviously have the possibility of assuring a little more comfort than I have done so far." One sign that Volcker was ready to make major changes in his life-style came March 18: he gave up his trademark 28 cents Antonio y Cleopatra cigars because both his wife and a close friend had stopped smoking...
...Explosives B "was quite successful. On some nights, people were lined up almost to the Harvard Bookstore waiting to get in." Sellars continued to discover unused and unknown spaces--usually in the bowels of Adams House. He directed Macbeth with three actors in a basement corridor and Antony and Cleopatra in the pool, complete with barge...