Word: helena
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...kick a cistern, then sit and play it like a Bongo in the second act. Jory has junked that and instead has Jimmy playing a complex jazz solo with plates and glasses on the bleak little tea table, as Alison announces that she's going out with her friend Helena. "That's not a direction," Porter replies in perfect syncopation, "that's an affliction...
...Helena is "an affliction," the Mayor Daley of the piece when it's presented fast and hard. She is the agent of the straight world, an actress and an emotional dilettante, prying with indecent interest into the Porter's peculiar menage and even playing a part or two in it. Osborne has written the role with a number of spendidly tinny or stilted lines ("Darling, why didn't you come to me?" "It won't be very pleasant, but I've made up my mind...") and Janet Sarno delivers them as though they are distantly remembered formulations from...
Jory's boldness has its perils, and once or twice he gets burned. With so much on Porter's stage command, the play sags whenever he is off. A long first scene of the second act, despite its deliniation of Helena's predatory habits, is a real albatross to this production...
...survived for a record twelve months. Starzl has no hope of curing her cancer, which has spread. What is certain is that Julie has an effectively functioning transplanted liver. Starzl has also discharged two-year-old Randell Wayne Bennett of Mesquite, Texas, and Eddie Miller, 44, of West Helena, Ark., and has three other patients, more recently operated on, still in Colorado General Hospital...
...Wheaton for their annual national convention, theosophy was once again under some suspicion. The scarcely adequate reason is that Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Kennedy's accused assassin, had asked for and received a copy of the society's most sacred book, The Secret Doctrine. Its author: Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-91), the Russian-born founder and high priestess of the movement...