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What Zefferelli and Prokoviev did to Romeo and Juliet, Vincenzo Bellini did earlier. Bellini, an Italian composer of the early nineteenth century, found arias where Prokoviev later discovered pas de deux. The opera, I Capuletti e I Montecchi, according to Loeb p.r., is marked by "intriguing departures from the original plot to produce a reinterpretation of Shakespeare's timeless theme," The Capulets and Montagues return to their original Italian from Shakespeare's English in the early May production at the Loeb...
...bright, healthy Irish immigrant girl to bear his child. The result is Stephen Henley, raised in an expensive, loveless manner. Instead of following Edward's sybaritic path, Stephen becomes a Unitarian minister and a classics scholar. He marries Lucy Roundtree Evans, a widow who has spent her sexual pas sion on her first husband...
...beautiful sweeping extensions and faultless turns that always marked her dancing were brilliant, but there was, in addition, an increased elevation and a new sense of freedom. In a pas de deaux with Ted Kivitt, she stepped majestically on point, released his hand and poised in an arabesque that lingered on and on, as if there were magnets concealed in her toe shoes...
...Ford was blamed for it." Carter also took some 56% of the Irish and about 55% of the Eastern European vote. But Mike Sotiros, a director of the Ford campaign in New York State, feels that Carter's barrage of references to Ford's debate faux pas about Eastern Europeans actually helped Ford cut into Carter's margin in this group. Says he: "It gave Ford Erie County (Buffalo) with its 300,000 Polish votes. Carter should have let the gaffe...
...meaningful one.' " His perceptive summa tions of Islamic tradition or Zionist his tory are comparable to the great riffs and turbulences of his novels. But the Middle East, no matter how bizarre, is not fictive, and in the end its complex ity forces Bellow to quote the urgent pas sage in Handel's Messiah: "Why do the nations so furiously rage together, and why do the peoples imagine a vain thing?" With the positing of that query, Bellow acknowledges that in the terri tory he has examined there are no easy answers. Indeed, there may be no answers...