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...live performance of even the fieriest tale of romance and betrayal can fizzle if the two lead actors share no chemistry.It is an axiom made flesh by Dominique Serrand’s production of Georges Bizet’s operatic masterpiece “Carmen,” which finished its five-week run at the Loeb Drama Center on Saturday.“Carmen” follows the ill-fated attraction between its titular heroine, a tempestuous femme fatale, and Don José, the Spanish corporal who uproots his life in order to pursue her. Don José forsakes...
...shot making at Winged Foot last week was only remarkable, the towel waving memorable. Fuzzy Zoeller signaled mock surrender to Greg Norman at the fieriest moment of a U.S. Open Sunday, and when the heat was off in their 18-hole playoff the following day, Norman waved back. Golf may be "a rude game," as Zoeller says, but golfers almost unfailingly display a grace under pressure that used to be the definition of heroism. From Yankee Stadium to Wimbledon, the phrase has pretty much abandoned sport...
Taking a curtain call is one thing; tackling Shakespeare's fieriest monarch is another. So for Olivier to test himself against King Lear-as he did last fall for Britain's Granada Television, in a program showing exclusively in the U.S. through mid-June at the Museum of Broadcasting in Manhattan-is less a professional challenge than an act of reckless physical courage. This recklessness has become something of a habit with Olivier. A sense of danger, athletic as well as emotive, has often been at the heart of his Shakespearean performances. His Romeo (1935) clambered...
Aneurin Bevan, by Michael Foot. A good, sympathetic biography of the Welsh mine worker who went on to become an ardent Socialist, a brilliant parliamentarian and, for years, the fieriest voice in Britain's Labor Party...
...tired of that endless nectar and ambrosia diet); so he agrees to cheer up the gods by a mass junket to the gayer clime of Hades and, incidentally, to rescue Eurydice. In hell, confusion is confounded by folderol, but finally-with the help of what is probably the fieriest cancan ever written-everyone agrees on a highly satisfactory and immoral solution...