Word: isabella
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However, there are at least three outstanding jobs. Dan Deitch plays his sour, self-righteous Angelo with a sibilant "S" that makes every word he utters sound selfish and mean. Susan Channing has the part of Isabella to deal with -- one of the most ambiguous roles ever written. Yet she manages to be both touching and priggish, and she is always believable. And Paul Schmidt, though he may not show the power and the glory of the Duke, does do a creditable job with a part that goes on forever and ever...
...Angelo, a man of seemingly flinty virtues, to take full power over the state. He enforces the laws with undeviating severity while the Duke masquerades as a lowly friar. In a fury of purity, Angelo orders a young gentleman, Claudio, to be executed for fornication. Claudio's sister Isabella, a novice in religious habit, pleads with Angelo to show mercy. Suddenly his puritanical iciness melts into lust, and he offers Isabella her brother's life in exchange for her body. Through one of Shakespeare's wrong-girl-in-the-right-bed ploys, Isabella preserves not only Claudio...
...Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., such arguments are anything but new. He can imagine similar criticism in Spain in the 1490s: "Why in hell are Ferdinand and Isabella giving all that money to that madman Columbus when they could build a good nunnery or a hostel or something?" The present answer to that question is a matter of hard political reality-which is another way of saying, national will. Space has seized the nation's imagination; other causes so far, have not. Dollars not saved in space would not automatically be allocated to poverty, or cities, or air-pollution control...
...name, and those, marshaled in Argentina for the past four months by shapely Isabel PerÓn, el lider's third wife, who would-understandably-favor el retorno of PerÓn from Spain. Even that diversion may soon end. Last week El Lobo ("the Wolf") ousted Isabella's chief lieutenant, José Alonso, as general secretary of the giant General Confederation of Labor. If Peronism should ever triumph, it looks more and more as though the strongman will have to enjoy his reign mainly from Spain...
Brain Damage. Though Rhode Island's effort was the most dramatic, it was by no means the only major attack against measles in progress or in the planning stage. In Michigan's Isabella County, after an outbreak in which 92 cases were reported-and 900 suspected-2,076 children were vaccinated in a drive that ended last week. With federal backing, 36 states and 41 communities are setting up vaccination campaigns...