Word: juana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miss McKenna has been seen in this country, she has done a superlative job in two recent plays, Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden and Morton Wishengrad's The Rope Dancers. But she has also recreated an impressive number of classic roles. She has given us a warm Sister Juana and a wonderful Maggie Wylie; and an unmatchably transcendent Saint Joan, which may serve as a yardstick for all future performances by an actress. In Shakespeare, she has now offered us a memorable Hamlet (yes, the title role!), Viola, and Lady Macbeth. And I have not cited her portrayals...
...million parakeets mess up their cages and refuse to say an intelligent word"-a conception subtle with the flavor of Zen-Zen, the West Coast's cultural mouthwash. In California, the hero sells pools frantically, working toward that aqueous millennium when "canoe trips from San Francisco to Tia Juana would be feasible, all by swimming pool and with no portage more than thirty yards...
Light Fantastic. In Juarez, Mexico, Juana Lucio, 78, testified, when her 103-year-old husband sought a divorce, that he came home late at night drunk, insisted on making merry, dancing the schottische with...
...Juana, the third of five children born to Ferdinand and Isabella, became heir to the throne after her only brother died and her older sister married the King of Portugal. Another sister was Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife (it was to divorce her and to marry Anne Boleyn that Henry defied the Church of Rome). Isabella married off Juana to Philip the Handsome of Austria, when she was 17. After the birth of a son, Juana's mind began to go. and the philan-derings of Philip are said to have aggravated her illness. Isabella...
Everything was ready for the opening of Spain's "First International Open-Air Exhibit of Sculpture" in Madrid's Retire Park. The organizers of the show, led by Art Critic Sefiora Juana de Mordo, had invited and received entries from Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Sweden. But as diplomats and officials gathered in striped pants and top hats for the formal inauguration, they noted a strange sight: all the nude statues had been primly covered with white sheets...