Word: maria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maria Tucci is much better as Proctor's wife Elizabeth, who at a crucial moment tries to help her adulterous husband by telling her first lie, when he is counting on her to be truthful as usual. And she makes the play's final moments moving as her cheeks course with tears in a combination of sadness, joy, and pride. Tovah Feldshuh is properly sexy as the teenage girl Abigail, who accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft in hopes of getting Proctor for herself...
...children are flourishing. Julio, 21, drives a taxi. Adelso, 19, operates a printing press. Diosa, 17, is a hairdresser. Zoila Maria, 15, is studying to be a nurse. The working children contribute part of their earnings to the household, and the household is buoyant. "We have had some problems here," Eloina concedes. "We know the Latin people are looked down on and discriminated against, but we get used to that, and it doesn't mean that we're unhappy here. We're very happy. Our children have a future that our country could never have given them...
Thus, older jazz musicians today no longer hesitate to participate in the evolutionary process. Zoot Sims, 50, the veteran tenor saxophonist, now straddles all styles. Benny Carter, 68, has lent the silken sounds of his alto sax to the torchy voice of thirtyish pop singer Maria Muldaur. Drummer Grady Tate, 44, pounds out extraordinary admixtures of jazz beats and shifting, rocky rhythms...
Shakespeare mentions the resemblance between Hermione and her teenage daughter Perdita. And, following a 19th-century precedent, Kahn has once again entrusted both roles to Maria Tucci, since the two characters are on stage together only in the final scene. Kahn gets around this problem by cutting Perdita's half dozen lines and using a stand-in facing away from the audience. I suppose it's ungallant to suggest that Miss Tucci can no longer really pass for a teenager, but she makes an appealing attempt. As Queen Hermione, she can speak eloquently when required to, and stand immobile...
...varying degrees, the answer is no. Western Europe's Communists say they want to create a sort of Eurocommunism that draws its inspiration from neither the Soviet Union nor China nor Yugoslavia. "None of the models existing in the world today apply to us," says José Maria González, economic spokesman of the exiled Spanish Communist Party...