Word: peronizing
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...rousing speeches a day and plunging into crowds with gusto. Luder, by contrast, seemed reserved and drab, an uninspiring speaker who rarely raised his voice or waved his arms. Toward the end of the campaign, nervous Peronists resorted to pairing Luder with the visage and recorded speeches of Juan Peron in television spots...
...defeat set off a fresh power struggle within the Peronist party. Several members urged that Isabel Peron, now 52 and self-exiled in Spain, return to take the party's helm. She dispatched a bizarre telegram to Alfonsin, misspelling his name and congratulating him in the name of the Peronist party, "over which I preside." Some demanded that Miguel and the other labor bosses be tossed out and the party cleansed of unsavory union influences...
...Peron in London, is a powerful singer if not a sexual dynamo in Marilyn, a ludicrous, lugubrious bio-opera about Marilyn Monroe. (Doomed movie stars are now the musical rage: a different Monroe show is coming to Broadway next season, and the National Theater is mounting a musical by Marvin Hamlisch based on the life and death of Jean Seberg.) Ben Kingsley, the R.S.C. stalwart who won an Oscar playing Gandhi, has brought his one-man show on 19th century Actor Edmund Kean to the West End. Griff Rhys Jones, who mugged his way to TV celebrity...
...some 6000 Argentine citizens into adulatory displays of patriotism in a matter of days. It was a clever sleight-of-hand that succeeded, temporarily at least, in diverting the country's attention from the economic and political horror that had engulfed it since the military seized power from Isabel Peron...
...though, Boston theatergoers will have to resign themselves to a somewhat imperfect theatrical experience, a small price to play for seeing the show here at all. Several minor performances, especially Jill Geddes' as Peron's former mistress, rival those of the leads. Above all else, Webber's consistently haunting and melodic score makes an Evita ticket a worthy investment...