Word: electras
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...seat of his car with his wife Isabelita while a document announcing his noncandidacy was distributed. When he was ready to leave, there was no sleek, chartered Alitalia jetliner like the one that had brought him to Argentina. This time he was a common commercial passenger on a seedy Electra C of Lineas Aereas Paraguayas...
MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA...
Mourning Becomes Electra is like a day of wild wind and rain that finally reduces everyone and everything to a sodden, nerveless pulp. O'Neill transposed the Oresteia-the legend of the doomed Greek house of Atreus-to post-Civil War New England and laced it with Freudianism. O'Neill never achieves the catharsis of pity and terror, only the strangulated sob of a guilty Christian conscience: "I believed in heaven. Now I know there is only hell...
...particular hell is this: while Ezra Mannon (Agamemnon) is away at war, his wife Christine (Clytemnestra) takes a lover, Adam Brant (Aegisthus). Daughter Lavinia (Electra) adores her father, hates her mother and is smitten with Adam. Ezra's return results in homicide and suicide. When the killing ends, Lavinia locks herself in the ancestral mansion to placate the ghosts of her forebears in solitary, lifelong penance...
...maybe the best, integrated Chicago-style blues band. He had Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop on guitars, Sam Lay on drums, Jerome Arnold on bass, and Mark Naftalin on keyboards. Magnificent blues musicians all, but the instantly recongizable names are Bloomfield and Bishop. The albums they made for Electra, particularly the first, rank with the finest blues albums to come from Chicago...