Word: patrons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lulu's patron, husband and prime victim, Bass-Baritone William Dooley mordantly conveys the opera's central drama of worldly power and rationality being ravaged by the primal erotic instinct. Among other solid supporting performances, Bass-Baritone Andrew Foldi is funny and touching as Schigolch, the old man who may be Lulu's father and who is as good a key as any to Berg's newly retrieved third act. Schigolch is the none too comforting image of what is left after passion and violence are spent: a scrabbling, wheezy, lecherous rag bag of a survivor...
...strictly Italian-American practice, this business of celebrating the saints and pinning large-denomination dollar bills on the icon of the day's patron saint...
...worker. "Men see it all. Why can't the women?" Adds Marsha Stempien, 21: "It's our night out. We don't have to be worried about being picked up by some weird guy and we can say and do what we like." A more matronly patron says simply: "It beats going bowling...
...that women stuff into his G string. "It's hard later to put yourself back in the world with everyone else." There is, of course, the occasional occupational hazard: late last June, for example, Sexy Rexy, one of Freddy's Playboys, moved so well that an excited patron ripped off his bikini. An on-duty policewoman happened to be in the audience, and Rexy was subsequently arrested for indecent exposure and the club fined for not having an entertainment license. Though booked elsewhere, Fast Freddy and the Playboys are still waiting in the wings at the Pit Stop...
...level personnel change at the paper in recent years, there was immediate speculation that Executive Editor Ben Bradlee had "got him." The New York Times reported differences in "management policies" between Bradlee and Geyelin. Other handicappers noted that Geyelin's star may have faded when his chief patron, Post Chairman Katharine Graham, 61, stepped down as publisher last January in favor of Son Donald, 33-and that, apparently, is closest to the truth. Donald Graham simply felt that Geyelin was beginning to run out of steam...