Word: goddesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Loeb epitomizes his achievement. Modern directors of this play face an annoying problem--Shakespeare's inclusion of an actress representing Hymen to cement the multiple marriages at the end. Much of today's audience can't even identify which deity that is, and the idea of a nuptial goddess seems inapposite to this As You Like It's earthiness, anyway. Belgrader breathes coarse, jocular humor into the tired device, turning Hymen into an earth-mother who rises on an elevator, with four false breasts, giant phalluses sticking medusa-like from her head, and a leer like an old gypsy...
Other works, like The White Snake and The Goddess of the Green Ripples, combine singing and acrobatics and seem less successful - or at least less accessible. Chinese singing, even when done well, as it obviously is by the Peking stars, sounds curiously bland and uninviting to untutored ears. A combination of the best productions, however, is a marvel for eye, mind and ear as well...
...Ronald. Now the director of the San Francisco Opera has again become a father. Adler was conducting a concert in Iceland when word came that his second wife, Nancy, 35, had borne him the first child of their 15-year marriage. Sabrina Sif (after the Nordic fertility goddess) Miller Adler is already showing performing promise. "She's a camera ham, and her voice is strong and healthy," says Dad. Adds Mom, sotto voce: "Particularly at four in the morning...
...ancient symbol of feminine power, also expresses the feminist goal of an equal society for all, men and women alike.) The three wings of the table hold place settings for 39 women, from the females of early mythology to the women who inhabit the twentieth century, from the Primordial Goddess to Georgia O'Keefe...
...first table in this historical sequence begins with the mythical goddesses and continues through the decline of the goddess-worshipping societies, the rise of the patriarchal nations, and hence the beginning of women's oppression, ending with the classical period. The second illustrates the rise of Christianity--and the fall of women's opportunities--ending with the Reformation. The final side--where the plates rise from low to high relief, symbolic of the growing impatience, the burgeoning desire to shake off the shackles--begins with the American Revolution and ends with O'Keefe, the only guest at the table...