Word: figaro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Editorialized Paris' right-of-center Le Figaro: "U.S. influence has shrunk in all directions. It has lost Angola, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Yemen, Afghanistan, Laos, Cambodia and most recently a kingpin in Iran, guardian of the Gulfs oil... the Yankee umbrella has more and more holes in it. The free world now asks itself the question: Must it still count on Americans?" London's Daily Telegraph was no kinder: "There is a nervelessness at the center in Washington coupled with clumsiness at the extremities. Hence the alarming loss of respect...
...that party is what the author of Mairead Corrigan, Betty Williams tried, but failed to do in his book. She was explaining the Irish peace movement, but, more importantly, she was trying to dissolve the international apathy about the "Irish question." Richard Deutsch, a Northern Ireland correspondent for Le Figaro, has lived in Belfast for the past five years, which might imply an understanding of the situation. Unfortunately, his book reads like a shallow but prolonged newspaper article; it is informative, but not particularly insightful...
When will the Mediterranean madness end? On Sunday night, Sept. 3. So far, all attempts to alter the ironclad European attitude toward July and August vacations have failed. Meanwhile a recent poll commissioned by the Paris daily Le Figaro has shown that workers would rather have more vacation than the equivalent extra pay-something that has ominous implications for the Med in the future and also for anyone trying to get a hotel room on its shores...
There is an argument to be made in favor of the playwright, suggesting that the link between the plays was essentially a political one. In this light, Figaro would have to stress the inequality of the friendship between man and master, as seen in Count Almaviva's failure to return Figaro's help in the second half of the play. That argument, however, would have little evidence to support it except the final chorus, which includes lines like, "But hear the thunder from the left, denouncing property as theft," and is sung to the tun of the British Labour Party...
...really, this is taking the whole thing a bit too seriously--something that contradicts the whole spirit of the Loeb's production, which plays every breath to the hilt--including the atrocious Spanish sprinkled through the dialogue. Figaro is clearly the best Loeb production of the spring, and it would be unfair to demand much more...