Word: coy
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...more than a century Saigon has played coy mistress to a series of foreign masters. Seemingly pliant, she has been occupied by Chinese conquerors, French colonialists, Japanese invaders and American troops. When the French arrived in 1862, Saigon was an unprepossessing village of palm trees and straw shacks. Then homesick planners dreaming of Paris remade her to suit their own visions. Narrow, winding streets were rearranged into the neat geometry of spacious public squares and broad boulevards. A twin-spired cathedral, an opera house, a palace were built to grace the squares. But if Saigon was kept in style...
...this production, as it manages to counteract the strained sense of tragedy Steven Crist insists on projecting through Orpheus. Regardless of the situation. Crist speaks in the same strident, anguished voice, which, predictably, soon grows monotonous. The play needs some contrast to the gentility of Heurtebise and the coy good nature of Eurydice, but Orpheus fails to provide that balance--harshly disrupting the triangle of their relationship, instead...
Suddenly, and perhaps for the first time in her life. Ethel Blake grew coy, she dangled something and she withheld something, she felt her power come true and she let a man's eye rest on a thing she held in her hand and then deliberately she stuck her hand behind her back...
...long it's the way many women have been forced to operate in order to get what they want or need. Ethel Blake is an honest woman who knows damn well the game she's playing in order to get herself laid, and who finds the power being coy gives her to manipulate another human being an exhilarating and, ultimately, a liberating experience...
Across the top of the full-page photos runs a commentary in coy kidspeak...