Word: jose
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...Carmen," originally an opera by Georges Bizet, is the name and the story of a seductive young woman in Spain who flirts her way into a violent and ultimately fatal love triangle. At the start of the dance, she seduces a Spanish corporal named Don Jose (Lazlo Berdo), who is in love with a meek girl named Micaela (Larissa Ponomarenko). When Don Jose is jailed for refusing to arrest Carmen, his wild new love captures Escamillo (Gino DiMarco), a proud bullfighter, with her charms. (Music lovers--the "Beef: It's What's for Dinner" theme parades around at this point...
Unfortunately, when Micaela returns to bring her lost love word that he must see his dying mother, Escamillo appears as well and engages in a duel with the furious Don Jose. The fight is broken up by Carmen, who declares that she now loves Escamillo. After returning from seeing his mother, Don Jose begs Carmen to come back to him. She spurns him, and he stabs her to death in a mad rage...
...another woman. Her mournful poignancy pulls at one's heartstrings so much that one cannot be completely sympathetic toward Carmen. On a more upbeat note, however, DiMarco and his fellow toreadors strut their stuff with a confident grace that compliments that of Carmen herself. Berdo, as the torn Don Jose, alternates well between his haughty, machismo corporal side and his madwith-passion lover side. And of course, Suarez and her various partners meld with a vibrant fluidity rarely seen in the ballet genre...
Last fall, Jose M. Padilla '97 found a swastika drawn on his door. Last month, Steven J. Mitby '99 received an anonymous note signed with a swastika...
...Jose Pertierra, one of Harbury's lawyers, said his client's struggle to find Everardo has drawn enormous attention to human-rights abuses in Guatemala...