Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world in soothing British voices. I need NPR to inform me of my elected representatives' latest antics. I have been known to stand and applaud when Nina Totenburg lands a particularly well-aimed barb on Speaker Newt. (Not that it's particularly challenging to make fun of the distinguished gentleman from Georgia, but that's another tirade...
Over the intercom comes a different voice, sounding energized and excited. The old showman's phrase booms out over the loudspeaker, "Ladies and gentleman, today is your lucky...
...uttered) by rarely showing up for classes. When law exams loomed, he persuaded a friendly doctor to say he was too ill to face them and should be sent off on vacation. In both Edinburgh and London he prowled the seedier neighborhoods late at night, sometimes dressed as a gentleman, sometimes as a ruffian, noting the differences in how he was treated. He appears to have had at least one serious affair with a prostitute, probably broken off by parental pressure...
Writing Home gives the reader a sporting chance at understanding Bennett; it is as close to an autobiography as this gentleman is likely to vouchsafe. And in its evocations of Bennett's early years, it offers a virtual oratorio of embarrassment. His father, the butcher, played double bass in a jazz band and produced herb beer at home but succeeded at neither. His prim "Mam" made a religion of getting along; eventually she retreated into what Bennett calls "her flat, unmemoried days," like a meeker George III. Young Alan sought glamour in Leeds' double-decker trams, musty mystery...
Catherine E. DeLima is a sweet-voiced anddemure Magda, gradually giving herself over firstto nostalgia, then longing and finally abandon.Her young lover Ruggero (Joel L. Derfner) iswinningly earnest in both voice and appearance.Saccente puts in another solid performance asMagda's "gentleman friend" Rambaldo. Themephistophelian poet Prunier (Michael J. Olbash)is affably effete, but perhaps a bit stiff as theadvocate of love's "dread disease...