Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...white" court sits in pompous assurance. An elegant queen, her simpering valet, a Missionary, a Judge, a Governor--the outlandishing-garbed whites are not only obvious symbols of white culture but obscene caricatures of the values each represents...
...minute by officials who met at 7 a.m. to synchronize watches. The whole city seemed to be mobilized, with businessmen working as ushers, and models hawking "Do It in the Streets" halter tops. "We're trying to keep people constantly entertained," said Director of Pageantry John Queen Jr., as four skydivers trailing pink smoke and Bicentennial flags plummeted seaward...
...have been performed either by U.S. regional opera companies or on television. A lurid tale of murder, intrigue and frustrated love, Ines de Castro builds to a climax in which the demented hero Dom Pedro places the cadaver of his true love Ines on the throne and declares her queen. Stage Director Tito Capobianco has conceived a stunning production that conveys most of the libretto's horror. What is called for musically is the power and sweep of a Verdi, or the psychological insight of a Moussorgsky. Pasatieri Instead has written in a bland, old-fashioned style that might...
...success mainly to Hal Prince's (West Side Story, Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof) making his debut as an operatic director. He is a master of illusion. There is a scene of villagers applauding a fire-eater that visually recalls Bruegel, a ridiculous pas de deux between the queen and a giant rooster. In a final Princely touch, darkness envelops the opera house. Then the spotlight focuses on the demon Ashmedai, who is smiling down from a box in the theater; it is a visual grace note that will outlast anything the audience has heard...
...were sold out by English duplicity and Islamic squabbling after 1918. He has been dead 40 years. In the meantime, there have been as many Lawrences as writers: the adulated hero (Robert Graves), the narcissistic moral cynic (Richard Aldington), the Hamlet, the Lord Jim of Araby, the heroic closet queen, and so on down to the sexy, prancing psychotic portrayed by Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia. In A Prince of Our Disorder, Harvard Psychiatry Professor John Mack has absorbed them all. His prose has the texture of gray felt, but it takes us closer to the core...