Word: feudally
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Like most operatic plots, that of The Marriage of Figaro is tortuous and ultimately unnecessary. Suffice to say that it involve the feudal privilege known as droit de seigneur and, some hours later, reunites one character with an unlikely set of parents. Unity comes not from the storyline but from the voices, which without exception stay well in control of a difficult and lengthy score--especially Knowles, who must awkwardly sing the show's first notes from his knees...
...voting patterns so far show that a majority of Southern Presbyterians basically agree with the Rev. John M. Miller of Hilton Head Island, S.C., who argues that opposition to merger now is "a feudal expression of longing for a past that can never be." Adds Richards, 80, a patriarch of the Southern denomination: "The church is under attack in so many quarters that we can't be divided. We've got to sacrifice the things that aren't essential in order to get together." -By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by B.J. Phillips/Atlanta
Africa warmed the Nordic strains of Karen's life and art. She began to tell stories to her tribal servants. The feudal relationship took on the characteristics of a folk tale. When she read poetry, a tribesman begged her to "talk like rain some more." As she invented stories, her listeners came to regard her as a kind of Scheherazade, a role, Thurman points out, in which "the challenge of seduction was heightened by the perils of failure...
Past Pudding productions have been set in 18th-century Europe ("Sealed With a Quiche"), feudal England ("Serf's Up"), and the distant future ("A Thousand Clones...
...Israelis' view, such a regime would promote stability, keep the leftist Arab elements in check and prevent a Palestinian threat from returning to their border. But the idea of a strong central government may prove to be a chimera: Lebanese society has always been a patchwork of different feudal, regional and religious communities whose rivalries have sparked internecine clashes for generations. The departure of the P.L.O. will not change that pattern. Moreover, many observers in Beirut fear that the election of Gemayel, whose Christian supporters constitute a minority of Lebanon's population, would bring about a renewal...