Word: isabel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside the hotel in Buenos Aires, an angry crowd chanted, "Death to the tyrant!" Inside, a handsome, dark-haired woman held court for newsmen. She was Isabel Martínez de Perón, 34, third wife of the ex-dictator who, at 70, lives in Spain and insists that he will one day return to Argentina. How was Juan Domingo Perón? asked a reporter. "In excellent health," she replied. And what was she doing back home? "I have come on a mission of peace," smiled Isabel...
Signs of Change. Everyone knew better. Isabel's mission was to enliven last week's Peronista rally scheduled for the 20th anniversary of Perón's rise to power-and thus brighten his fading image among the 3,000,000 or so Argentines who call themselves Peronistas. The old strongman's problem is that the people he once called his descamisados (shirt less ones) do not need him any more. Argentina's working class is now well organized, and looking for leadership among half a dozen tough young politicians and labor leaders. To many...
...actors--Beverly Doyle (Isabel), Jim Shapiro (Alex) and Thomas King (Absolom)--and their "working partners"--Jesse Kornbluth, John Mercer, and Judy Zellweger--also performed some improvisations by way of demonstrating their rehearsal technique...
...minute after Joel Schwartz's Just a Quiet Note begins, Isabel gives herself a fix. Since the fact of dope addiction no longer has much shock value, this was merely distracting. Slipping into a documentary frame of mind for a moment, I wondered vaguely whether the actress's technique was authentic, and waited...
...suppose Schwartz means seriously the sketch that followed. It concerned an abortive reading of Hamlet, directed by Isabel's alcholic lover, Alex, who is the brother of Isabel's former lover--who died of an overdose of heroin. Alex reads Claudius, Isabel Gertrude. Hamlet is appropriately performed by Absolom, an idiot-child orphan the other two have inexplicably accumulated some five minutes before the scene opens...