Word: lusitania
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funny about a beautiful woman being silly," a great friendship was born. She gave him class; he gave her sexy roles. Sigourney played a murderous multiple schizophrenic Electra figure in Durang's Titanic, a woman who dates a bisexual analysand in Beyond Therapy. Together they wrote and performed Das Lusitania Songspiel, a deliciously rancid Brecht-meets-Broadway parody, and Naked Lunch, a fake interview with Voracious Starlet Sigourney Weaver that, in expanded form, may soon be a major motion picture. "She is a very strong collaborator," says Durang. "The furthest-out ideas come from Sigourney. I, however, type faster...
Woodrow Wilson, desperate to avoid being pulled into World War I, awoke one morning in his third year to the news that the Lusitania had been torpedoed by Germany without warning and dozens of Americans had died. He had contended that the U.S. was "too proud to fight" and "so right" that it did not need to use force. Theodore Roosevelt had a word for Wilson's position: yellow. Wilson and America then were swept along by events...
...cavernous "room," as the main trading hall of Lloyd's of London is called, a clerk still enters (with a quill pen) the names of newly sunk vessels in an upright ledger that, in past years, has held the names of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Above hangs the Lutine bell, salvaged from a Lloyd's-insured British frigate, which tolls to announce a maritime loss or other disaster. That bell should perhaps now be pealing for the venerable insurance institution itself...