Word: harridan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...focus has been shifted from young Pip to the vindictive harridan who teaches him his first lesson in cruelty and deceit. In Miss Havisham's Fire we see her on her calamitous wedding day, deserted by her bridegroom. (The young Miss Havisham is sung by Gianna Rolandi, who has a generous mad scene of her own.) There is a brushstroke plot involving an inquest into Miss Havisham's death, but the opera is really a star vehicle for a coloratura. Argento had Beverly Sills in mind when he began work two years ago. She agreed...
...been reviled as a hideous harridan and hailed as a paragon of grace. Henry Ford tried to buy her. Maurice Utrillo painted her portrait. Poet Vladimir Mayakovsky dreamed of transporting her to Moscow. Hitler was photographed with her. More tourists visit her than the Statue of Liberty...
Supremely Jealous. Haines portrays Marcia as an ill-tempered, domineering harridan who tried and often succeeded in tyrannizing not only Wilson's staff but the Prime Minister himself. Haines describes Williams "shrewishly denouncing the Prime Minister in front of civil servants," commandeering his official car and driver as if it were her own and once punishing him for waking her up with a phone call in the middle of the night by returning it an hour later "just to see how he liked it." She bullied the No. 10 staff, Haines claims, firing girls whom she found too poised...
...leader of the radical "Gang of Four"* accused of attempting to seize power after Mao's death last September, Chiang Ch'ing is pictured as a scheming empress of days long past. Alternatively she is depicted as a treacherous snake in woman's dress, a harridan spitting venom and a wily warrior wielding a spiked club. Perhaps most shocking to the puritanical Chinese are caricatures of Chiang Ch'ing as a trollop. In one of many variants on this theme, she is shown reclining on a divan decorated with dollar signs, her skirt hiked up, while...
...pace of this Menagerie, directed by Robert Lisack, is slow at first, its tone somber almost to the point of dreariness. What sustains the show, until the superb climactic scene, is the generally high caliber of the acting. Bonnie DeLorme as Amanda is a classically stifling mother. Both harridan and guardian, she pines over her lost youth as a southern belle and happily nurses the memory of the day she entertained 17 gentleman callers. DeLorme's gestures are a bit awkward at times, but her lips, pouting or trembling, and her eyes, gazing into the past or seeing a future...