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Later comes a hair-curling (and historically inaccurate) episode in which, with spitting snarls, Maria denounces Elizabeth to her face ("obscene, unworthy prostitute . . . vile bastard"), and thereby seals her doom. At the end, Sills is the epitome of resolute self-control, pulling her disparate and volatile selves together, laying her head bravely on the block and rapping it three times to cue the executioner, as, by some accounts, Maria did. Going to one's death onstage is nothing new for any opera singer. But Sills somehow always manages to put new life into it. -William Bender
...Puritanism." As a dramatist, he sometimes practices a reverse puritanism by preaching salvation through the big stud. This holy devil can redeem parched, inhibited and neurotic women, but those who do not avail themselves of his service, like shy, strait-laced Alma Winemiller in Summer and Smoke, seal their doom...
...also taken crowd-pleasing steps like putting economic pressure on the country's 80,000 Asians, who control most of its small businesses. If Big Daddy is unable to bolster Uganda's sagging economy, however, there is a chance that some day he might meet an unspecified "doom," which was also foretold in that long-ago vision...
...novel begins, Raul sits in a beanery in The Bronx, near the Cabot School, wrapped in a satisfying combination of doom and glory. He is preparing to cut classes for the tenth straight day. Fascinated classmates crowd round to be recognized or snubbed, as black-princely honor requires. Expertly-he is practiced at this-Raul builds his mood from their reactions. He must have theater. Alec, a worldly friend, asks why Raul has dressed in black. "I'm in mourning for my life," he replies. "Who is that from?" asks Alec, a bit off balance. "Chekhov," says Raul...
...avoid work except as it relates to their own communes, lest their members be forced to choose between God and mammon. Yet they badger businessmen to support them with handouts of money and supplies, while raging against a sinful America and proclaiming its-and the world's-imminent doom. In their most apocalyptic moments, they dress in red sackcloth (a sign of warning), daub themselves with ashes, put yokes around their necks. With the prophet's traditional staff, they stand silent vigils in public places, breaking their silence only to utter an occasional...