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...distinguished ancestor. Leading Kabuki artists like Tamasaburo, 32, a brilliant onnagata, may achieve the popularity of rock stars. One of the most effective works in the tour repertory is Narukami (The Thunder God), first presented in 1684. A stirring tale somewhat resembling the biblical stories of Judith and Delilah, it recounts the bravery of Princess Kumo-no-Taema (Tamasaburo), who journeys to the mountain redoubt of Priest Narukami (Ebizo) to seduce him and free the god of rainfall, whom Narukami has imprisoned. Tamasaburo, a picture of idealized femininity, and the virile, matinee-idol handsome Ebizo both display the mastery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Japan's Wondrous Road Show | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

DIED. Edith Head, eightyish, Hollywood costume designer who once described her job as "a cross between camouflage and reconstruction" and who won a record eight Academy Awards (for The Heiress, All About Eve, Samson and Delilah, A Place in the Sun, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, The Facts of Life and The Sting); in Los Angeles. Her first job for a studio was draping garlands over elephants in a Cecil B. De-Mille circus film. She notched her first Oscar for dressing Olivia de Havilland as a spinster in The Heiress in 1949. Prim and priggish-looking in her bangs and tortoise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 9, 1981 | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...otherwise. Captain Jonathon Stagg, Grant's sometime S.A.S. subordinate, sniffs something rotten in the North Sea wind but cannot pinpoint the terrorists' target­or persuade the mandarins of Whitehall that a catastrophe is gathering offshore. The battle of Samson (Stagg suggests that it be code-named Delilah) winds up as a duel of wits and weaponry between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Terrorists Take Over the Thrillers | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

...happy scene might be during the last act of [Wagner's] Meistersinger, laughing at Beckmesser, who is a comic character. Or, another one from Samson and Delilah, the Bacchanale scene which ends in Samson's knocking down the pillars, is a drunken orgy. You're supposed to be doing whatever you want, so you wander around and slap people on the shoulders in no apparent order onstage. I was talking to people and revelling and having a good time...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: Confessions of An Opera Star | 1/8/1980 | See Source »

Then there are the stealthy moments. Another example from Samson and Delilah: I was one of the blinders, the people who blind Samson in the second act. There's a storm, the stage is dark--the ten of us have to prowl around the stage before we sneak up and pounce...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: Confessions of An Opera Star | 1/8/1980 | See Source »

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