Word: maelstroms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Instead of the usual wisp of pathetic winsomeness, Stratas makes of Mimi a complete woman, one with physical and emotional desires and the will to achieve them. Impulsively planting a kiss on Rodolfo's cheek near the end of Act I, calmly singing at the center of the maelstrom of Act II, reaching out to her lover amid the snowdrifts of Act III or expiring serenely in Act IV, Stratas holds the attention with both her voice and body, giving the opera a strong central fulcrum...
...cast then assembles onstage like a huge family and recites, in alternating chorus, a prologue to the curious life and adventures of Mr. Nicholas Nickleby. If this chorus work is an adaptation of classical theater technique-mastered in another grand R.S.C. production, The Greeks, staged last whiter -the sudden maelstrom of action, humor, high drama, low parody and the occasional song into which the audience is about to be plunged is a breathtaking display of ensemble virtuosity...
FRANK SINATRA is a man in a maelstrom. As detective sergeant Edward Delaney in The First Deadly Sin, he must track and capture a crazed killer, comfort and protect his sick wife after her kidney has been removed, and deal with a belligerent captain sent in from downtown to clean up his deteriorating precinct...
...first Washington talked of deporting the newcomers and ordered fines levied against the boats' skippers. Still they came. Then nature intervened, with 60-m.p.h. winds whipping the Florida Straits into a maelstrom worthy of Melville. Still they came, landing daily at Key West in sturdy shrimp boats, speedy pleasure cruisers, leaky outboards. The flotilla that had begun setting off from Florlida two weeks ago to pick up refugees at the Cuban port of Mariel had more than tripled in size by last week. Declaring the exodus an "unprecedented emergency," President Carter called off a scheduled U.S. Navy exercise near...
...deck. By 11:30 the disabled ship's Greek-born captain, Dimitrios Georgoulis, and his 22 crewmen, most, of them Tunisians, had pulled away in two lifeboats, their luggage neatly stowed. Six minutes later the tanker's stern lifted; it went down in a churning maelstrom of spray and debris, plunging nearly two miles to the bottom of one of the Atlantic Ocean's deepest trenches...