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Money & Medicine. Monk was sustained during much of this bleak time by his friend, mascot and champion, the Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter, 50. The baroness had abandoned the aseptic, punctual world of her family* for the formless life of New York's night people. In 1955 she acquired undeserved notoriety...
Belle (Coral Browne) demands that he come back to her, and gets so importunate he gives her a sedative. Absentmindedly, without really meaning to, he gives her much too much. She dies, a victim of what might be called a Freudian sleep. The audience is left with the impression that...
Bernstein conceives of the prayer as less a lament for the dead than an affirmation of life in the face of death, a celebration of God at the very moment when his mystery is the most difficult to bear. This dualistic concept gives his music a savage, struggling complexity, in...
Dead Ringer is predicated on the proposition that two Bette Davises are better than one. Bette plays a set of identical twins: one named Maggie, one named Edie, both at the hag end of middle age. Poor Edie hates rich Maggie because Maggie stole the man she had once wanted...
The next day, when an old clerk dies, Domenico is promoted and his destiny is sealed. As his father exclaims, too joyfully, "He has a job for the rest of his life." He will grow old with the company.