Word: purcelle
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While most of the headlines this hot summer have been dwelling on elephants, donkeys, and dog days in the economy, the bulls have pulled a fast one. Shrugging off gloomy news about rising unemployment, sagging industrial production and red ink all over Detroit, stock prices have been surging steadily for...
Eager for combat during the Korean War, Liddy, fresh from Fordham, was assigned instead as an Army lieutenant to antiaircraft batteries in New York City. After his discharge, he met "the woman I wanted to bear my children," Frances Ann Purcell: "A Teuton/Celt of high intelligence, a mathematical mind, physical...
The characterization of the upper and lower orders of the fairy-world matches. Kenneth Ryan's Oberon pompously barks his lengthy speeches as if entranced by their weight; Carmen de Lavallade's Titania flexes her body in superhuman ways and says more with it than most performers manage with the...
The sextet of "rude mechanicals" who wander into the forest to rehearse their play intrudes on this inhuman enclave like visitors from another dimension. Their antics, delivered by the ART actors with gung-ho spirit and the precision of acrobats, form a haven of the familiar in Epstein's inhospitable...
BUT HUMOR in Epstein's production serves as a counterpoise to, not a remedy for, the harshness of nature: both moods coalesce under the spell of Purcell's music into an almost consecrational celebration. That's appropriate for A Midsummer Night's Dream's nuptial blessing in dramatic form, and...