Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Audiences jaded by the cliches of opera-as-usual have been delighted by Caldwell's frequent and highly plausible new looks at old friends. Violetta in Traviata emerges not as the usual high-class tart with a heart of gold, but as an older woman resigned to her fate. The Druid priestess Norma? An albino, whose white hair and skin made her people think she was possessed and therefore a powerful leader...
...parents' home and into a world of casual employment and even more casual friendships. For a while, she shared a house on a lake with two young men; somewhere along the line, she began experimenting with drugs. Several friends describe her as an occasional marijuana user and frequent pill-popper, who took "uppers" and "downers" to suit her moods...
Little, in her first speaking appearance in Boston, delivered a harsh attack on the judicial system in her rambling, informal remarks, which were interrupted with frequent applause...
Gordy is disdainful of all criticism, personal and professional. The harsh reviews? They are merely "attacks on an uppity black." As for frequent rumors that Motown is Mob financed, Gordy counters: "We have a choice of suing people for such stories or ignoring them." Employee resentment over his dictatorial managerial style is not so easily dismissed. "If I ever wrote a book," says one Motown staffer, "I'd call it God Is on Extension 274-that's Berry...
...from the American Med ical Association, which disapproves of unionization but approved the New York strikers' demand for shorter shifts to improve patient care. The A.M.A., says a spokesman, "believes that physicians are better represented by a professional association with broad purposes than by a union with a frequent focus on narrow, economic objectives...