Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowds turned out to welcome Bonnie back to Boston, and her loyal partisans filled the opulent old Aquarius. Gleefully displaying her purple knee-length crushed velvet boots, Bonnie came out backed by some excellent saxophone work by John Payne, who appeared last week at Passim's. By the time she was up and doing "You've Been In Love Too Long," an old Martha and the Vandellas song ("this is my James Brown imitation"), the burly, long-haired security guards were having their troubles clearing the aisles...
...career Government spy and mystery novelist, now imprisoned for the Watergate wiretapping and burglary. Graceful of language but wan and dispirited, he argued that not even the political raid on Democratic National Headquarters was improper since he believed it to have been authorized by high officials of government; ever loyal, he was merely doing his clandestine duty...
Isabelita has prudently remained silent on her own political opinions and ambitions, limiting herself to loyal praise of "mi general." Her foes fear she will use the vice presidency to consolidate and expand her power. The major stumbling blocks are the left-leaning Peronist youth, who are wary of her rightist views, and the military. They accepted her candidacy only after reaching a "gentlemen's agreement" with Peron...
...repertory feeds the vitality of any opera company, of course, but new mountings of familiar works can be a misappropriation of dwindling resources. Probably the New York City Opera owes its loyal fans the right to see Beverly Sills in her latest Donizetti revival, Anna Bolena (not given a major stage production in New York since 1850). But would those fans really desert if deprived of yet another new production of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos? Not likely...
...long beards worn by Ts'ao Ts'ao, General Ts'ao Hung and their principal adversary, the loyal General Kuan Yu, symbolize great age. The thin soles worn by the protagonists in The Cowherd and the Village Girl establish their low station in life. Waving ribbons, such as those used by the title character in The Heavenly Angel, may indicate anything from the sea to clouds to the wind. Since many a Chinese opera can run as long as seven hours, the evening's program is wisely limited to climactic excerpts from these and such other...