Word: desdemona
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...jerky life, smiling mysteriously, bestowing a Queen Mother nod on some old friend. But what old friend? Why did she smile at him? Can it be she's fooling around with one of them Mafia bums? Or even with Joey? She can be. She must be. His Desdemona must be punished, like a pretty but punch-less fighter who needs a tough lesson taught. And so must Joey...
...climaxes in a score that sometimes seems to be nothing but climaxes. But Verdi and Librettist Arrigo Boito knew that after the massive choral scene in Act III, enough was enough. Hence the rightness of the subdued, wistfully melancholy fourth act, a sort of spacious postlude. This act is Desdemona's great moment. Soprano Gilda Cruz-Romo made the most of it, although in the earlier acts her singing had somewhat lacked color and shading. Poignant and dignified, she spun out the Willow Song and Desdemona's final prayer in long, crystalline legates...
...storehouse of such), Machiavelli, De Sade, McCarthy. The same peculiar joining of character and name occurs all the time, even in the fictive world. Romeo is as inseparable from the youth so named as he was from Juliet, and no actress could credibly play the role of Desdemona if the character's name were changed to, say, Sally. Some names veritably become the named, or vice versa-which is why everybody so naturally speaks of celebrated persons as "big names...
...even be allowed over the grease trap. Jill Clayburgh has the same perverse delight in failure, and, without once batting her intense blue eyes, she will reel off a list of her own disasters long enough to paper the Taj Mahal. There was the time she played Desdemona in Los Angeles and audiences almost cheered when Othello smothered her. Then there was the opening night of Tom Stoppard's Jumpers in Washington, D.C.: she opened a door and it crashed down...
...Othello is always going to strangle Desdemona," Kahn says "But sport is unpredictable and real. The pain is real, and the tears are real tears." Kahn, author of the bestselling The Boys of Summer, an affectionate look back to the glory days of the Dodgers in Brooklyn has been writing about sports for 26 years. This week he begins a new feature for TIME. His "Byplay" will appear 20 times a year, offering, in Kahn's words, "a dialogue with our readers on sports...