Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Absurdity & Despair. The bleak, mocking portrayal of 19th century Russian life that Shostakovich chose for his libretto survives from the original version. A gay and clever girl marries into a loveless, thankless life among crude and cruel merchants. A love affair blossoms with one of her husband's workmen, and, bewitched by the promise of a new life, she kills both husband and father-in-law. Just as she and her lover take happy possession of the Mtsensk manor house, the crimes are discovered; on her way to Siberia in a column of convicts, she is taunted...
...reason for the gay of dreamy optimism prevailing at Yale is the widely believed rumor that about half the Harvard team is confined to the Health Center...
...REHEARSAL. Anouilh's ironically gay comedy is edged in black-for the drawing-room murder of a jaded count's true love for an innocent governess...
...instant, the rink was littered with enormous chunks of concrete, shredded programs, crumpled popcorn boxes, splintered seats, twisted steel-and dozens of limp or painfully writhing bodies that lay in puddles of blood spreading over the ice. It took a moment for the horror to register. Then the gay chorus line broke in a scramble of skate blades and screams. A woman in the audience shrieked to her companion: "It's part of the show! It's got to be! It's got to be!" The band continued to play Dixieland...
...rescue workers descended on the Coliseum. Auto wreckers and a construction crane rumbled onto the ice rink, began lifting blocks of concrete to free the dead and the injured. Doctors and nurses, their clothing streaked with dried blood, worked feverishly. Others organized a makeshift morgue on the rink. Beneath gay red and green Chinese lanterns left over from the finale, men laid bodies on boards, covered them with blankets, tarpaulins and overcoats, and marked each with a curt description such as, "Young girl, sandy hair, blue eyes. Unidentified...