Word: desmond
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HRAAA succeeded in getting four of its candidates--among them South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu--elected to the board...
...only new overseer with priorexperience on the board, having been elected to aspecial two-year term in 1993 when South AfricanArchbishop Desmond M. Tutu resigned...
Jessica Fortunato's portrayal of Elizabeth Finch, an examiner of the dead, supplies the play's highest moments. Her throaty voice fills the entire theater effortlessly as she marches in like a Norma Desmond and seizes the scene. In the play's brassiest moment, she lies dying, strapped to a bed, awaiting a last ditch operation. Dr. Harmon dons his bird-like leather mask while Sarah, now a nursemaid, polishes an enormous knife. In a fit of pain, Elizabeth convulses and screams. As her bed descends beneath the stage, a beam of light illuminates her body and loud religious music...
Perhaps the only person who would be uncowed by the challenge of following Kane is the indomitable Norma Desmond. Nothing can beat the sheer eerieness (and glorious camp appeal) of fading silent screen diva Gloria Swanson "playing" fading silent screen diva Norma Desmond on film...
...wheedles himself a cushy job editing the epic Norma Desmond has written as a "return" vehicle for herself. His every need is attended by her slavishly devoted butler, Max (Erich von Stroheim), who erases his own identity in the service of "Madame." As the days wear on, a pattern develops: As the days wear on, a pattern develops: Joe learns never to refuse Norma what she wants, and, like a vampire, she seems to gain vitality and optimism as he loses...