Word: juliet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would decide what qualities to preserve, and by what standards? Even remedial genetic engineering could pose a distressing problem if it achieved the ability to remove "undesirable" behavior tendencies. Asks Thielicke: "Would one try to eradicate Faust's restlessness, Hamlet's indecision, King Lear's conscience, Romeo and Juliet's conflicts...
...setting of his story is Parma; had it been Verona the parody of Shakespeare's account of ill-starred lovers in Romeo and Juliet would have been too painfully obvious. Ford's Romeo is called Giovanni and he is played by an actor named Stan Nevin who has half of Leonard Whiting's credentials-a good physique-while lacking a strong or even passable voice for Ford's verse. Giovanni loves his sister Annabella, whose combination of wraithlike charm and physicality Lucinda Winslow succeeds very well in conveying. (Lucy Winslow, Loebgoers will remember, was superb in Dirty Hands. ) The worm...
This year's "A" team consisted of ten skiers. Other women who contributed largely to the team scoring totals were Harriet Bering, Nancy Cochran, Sharman Haley, Tamsin Venn, and Juliet Bradley...
...break, sure enough, the model appears. Now he is a bank manager scampering down a hallway toward a woman teller who shouts that the bank now has $1 billion in trust. Manager and teller go into a slow-motion dance to the strains of Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet...
Corsaro has his keen eye on other Delius operas. As he points out, no less an authority than the late Sir Thomas Beecham, Delius' friend and greatest champion, considered A Village Romeo and Juliet and Fennimore and Gerda infinitely superior to Koanga...